The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 62
Marzavan was not forgotten, but was given a lucrative post at court, with a promise of further advancement.
What happens: not forget, give, promise · To what, where: Marzavan, lucrative post, court, further advancement
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 given | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forgotten | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 post | det |
| 10 | lucrative | lucrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 post | amod |
| 11 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 court | case |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 promise | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 promise | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 promise | det |
| 17 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 advancement | case |
| 19 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 advancement | amod |
| 20 | advancement | advancement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 promise | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · passive | Marzavan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | a lucrative post | court | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: post=Theme at court=Asset | ||||
| 3 | promise | further advancement | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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