The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 56
After a few days the Princess Badoura promoted Camaralzaman to the post of grand treasurer, an office which he filled with so much integrity and benevolence as to win universal esteem.
Who acts: Princess Badoura, office · What happens: promote, fill, win · To what, where: Camaralzaman, universal esteem
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 (Princess Badoura, office), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 promoted | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Badoura | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Badoura | compound |
| 7 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 promoted | nsubj |
| 8 | promoted | promote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 promoted | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 post | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 post | det |
| 12 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promoted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 treasurer | case |
| 14 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 treasurer | amod |
| 15 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 post | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 office | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 office | det |
| 18 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 post | conj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 filled | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 filled | nsubj |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 office | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 integrity | case |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 integrity | amod |
| 25 | integrity | integrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 benevolence | cc |
| 27 | benevolence | benevolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 integrity | conj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 win | mark |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 win | mark |
| 30 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 filled | advcl |
| 31 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 esteem | amod |
| 32 | esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 win | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 promoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promote | past | the Princess Badoura | Camaralzaman | day | to the post of grand treasurer and a office | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Theme | ||
| 2 | fill | past | a office | with much integrity and benevolence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with integrity=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | a office not said here | universal esteem | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent esteem=Eventuality |
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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