The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 36
She then related her whole history, and at its close Haiatelnefous embraced her warmly, and assured her of her entire sympathy and affection.
Who acts: wife · What happens: relate, embrace, assure · To what, where: whole history, wife, close Haiatelnefous
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 (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 related | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 related | advmod |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 history | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 history | amod |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embraced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 embraced | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Haiatelnefous | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Haiatelnefous | nmod:poss |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Haiatelnefous | amod |
| 12 | Haiatelnefous | Haiatelnefous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 embraced | obl |
| 13 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 embraced | obj |
| 15 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 13 embraced | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 assured | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 assured | cc |
| 18 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 assured | iobj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sympathy | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sympathy | nmod:poss |
| 22 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sympathy | amod |
| 23 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 assured | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 affection | cc |
| 25 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sympathy | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | wife | wife's whole history | then | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme | |||
| 2 | embrace | past | wife not said here | wife | history's close Haiatelnefous | warmly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | assure | past | wife not said here | wife | of wife's entire sympathy and affection | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of sympathy=Topic |
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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