The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 50
However he received all the praises bestowed on him with becoming modesty, and prostrating himself, said:
Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: receive, bestow, become, prostrate, say · To what, where: praises, modesty, Camaralzaman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Camaralzaman), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 3 received | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 praises | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 praises | det |
| 6 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 received | obj |
| 7 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 praises | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bestowed | obl |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 becoming | mark |
| 11 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bestowed | advcl |
| 12 | modesty | modesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 becoming | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 15 | prostrating | prostrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 said | ccomp |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 prostrating | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prostrating | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Camaralzaman | all praises | however property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Theme | |||
| 2 | bestow | participle | all praises not said here | on Camaralzaman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | gerund | modesty | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | prostrate | gerund | Camaralzaman | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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