The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 104
Khacan, overjoyed at this news, gave orders that the slave should be brought for his inspection on his return from the palace.
Who acts: Khacan, Saouy · What happens: overjoy, give, bring, inspect, return · To what, where: Khacan, news, orders, slave, return, palace
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Khacan, Saouy), 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 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 overjoyed | punct |
| 3 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Khacan | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 news | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overjoyed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Khacan | punct |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slave | det |
| 12 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gave | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 inspection | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 inspection | nmod:poss |
| 18 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 return | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 return | nmod:poss |
| 21 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inspection | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 return | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | participle | Khacan not said here | this news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Khacan | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | should · passive | the slave | for Saouy's inspection on Saouy's return from the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | inspect | Saouy | Saouy's return from the palace | nom inspection «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place | |||||
| 5 | return | Saouy | the palace | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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