The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 32
Now Badoura had thought much of the difficulties of her first interview with King Armanos' daughter, and she felt the only thing to do was at once to take her into her confidence.
Who acts: Haiatelnefous, only thing · What happens: think, feel, do, be, interview, confide · To what, where: Badoura, confidence
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 (Haiatelnefous, only thing), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 difficulties | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 difficulties | det |
| 8 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 much | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 interview | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 interview | nmod:poss |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 interview | amod |
| 12 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 difficulties | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Armanos | Armanos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | flat |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interview | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thing | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thing | acl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 take | cop |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 once | case |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 take | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 felt | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 confidence | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Badoura | now | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Haiatelnefous | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the only thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the only thing | Haiatelnefous's confidence | take property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | interview | Haiatelnefous | with King's daughter | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 6 | confide | Haiatelnefous | nom confidence «cognition 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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