The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 91
It may well be believed that the prince felt in despair at this fresh misfortune, which obliged him to spend another year in a strange and distasteful country.
Who acts: prince, fresh misfortune · What happens: believe, feel, oblige, spend · To what, where: ship, Prince, strange country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, fresh misfortune), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | aux |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 believed | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 believed | aux:pass |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 felt | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 despair | case |
| 11 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 misfortune | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 misfortune | det |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 misfortune | amod |
| 15 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 obliged | nsubj |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 misfortune | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obliged | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 spend | mark |
| 21 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 country | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 country | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 country | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 distasteful | cc |
| 28 | distasteful | distasteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 strange | conj |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | may · passive | ship | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the prince | at this fresh misfortune; in despair | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in despair=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past | this fresh misfortune | Prince | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | this fresh misfortune not said here | a strange country | year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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