The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 45
Next morning she ordered the prince to be taken to the bath and clothed in a manner suitable to an emir or governor of a province.
Who acts: Badoura · What happens: order, take, clothe · To what, where: prince
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 (Badoura), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bath | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bath | det |
| 12 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 clothed | cc |
| 14 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 taken | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 manner | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 manner | det |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clothed | obl |
| 18 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 manner | amod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 emir | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 emir | det |
| 21 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suitable | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 governor | cc |
| 23 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emir | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 province | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 province | det |
| 26 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 governor | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Badoura | the prince | morning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive · passive | Badoura not said here | to the bath result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to bath=Result | ||||
| 3 | clothe | participle | Badoura not said here | in a manner | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in manner=Theme |
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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