The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 23
The king's offer was naturally rather embarrassing to the Princess Badoura.
Who acts: offer, king · What happens: be, offer
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 (offer, king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 embarrassing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 embarrassing | cop |
| 6 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 8 embarrassing | advmod |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 embarrassing | advmod |
| 8 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Badoura | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Badoura | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Badoura | compound |
| 12 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 embarrassing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 embarrassing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's offer | to the Princess Badoura; embarrassing, naturally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | the king | nom offer «communication transitive»: 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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