The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 12
Only the princess and her women knew of Camaralzaman's disappearance, for the rest of the party were sleeping or resting in their tents.
Who acts: princess, rest, Camaralzaman · What happens: know, sleep, rest, disappear · To what, where: tents
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, rest, Camaralzaman), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 princess | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 women | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 women | nmod:poss |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 princess | conj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 disappearance | case |
| 9 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Camaralzaman | case |
| 11 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleeping | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 sleeping | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeping | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 party | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 party | det |
| 18 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleeping | aux |
| 20 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 knew | parataxis |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 resting | cc |
| 22 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sleeping | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tents | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 resting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the princess and wife's women | of Camaralzaman's disappearance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of disappearance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past · progressive | the rest of the party | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | the rest of the party not said here | princess's tents | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location | ||||
| 4 | disappear | Camaralzaman | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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