The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 58
He had no clue to the mystery of his present position, for the princess, out of compliment to the old king, had taken his name, and was generally known as King Armanos the younger, few people remembering that on her first arrival she went by another name.
Who acts: Camaralzaman, few people, princess · What happens: have, take, know, remember, go, name · To what, where: clue, name, first arrival · 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, few people, princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 clue | det |
| 4 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mystery | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mystery | det |
| 7 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 position | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 position | nmod:poss |
| 10 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 position | amod |
| 11 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mystery | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 princess | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 compliment | punct |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 compliment | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 compliment | case |
| 19 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 princess | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 king | amod |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 compliment | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taken | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 taken | aux |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 known | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 known | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 known | aux:pass |
| 32 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 33 known | advmod |
| 33 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 Armanos | case |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Armanos | compound |
| 36 | Armanos | Armanos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 known | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 younger | det |
| 38 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 Armanos | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 people | punct |
| 40 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 people | amod |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Armanos | appos |
| 42 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 people | acl |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 went | mark |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 arrival | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 46 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 47 arrival | amod |
| 47 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 went | obl |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 went | nsubj |
| 49 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 remembering | ccomp |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 name | case |
| 51 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 name | det |
| 52 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 went | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Camaralzaman | no clue | to the mystery of Camaralzaman's present position | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | Camaralzaman not said here | Camaralzaman's name | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | Camaralzaman not said here | as King Armanos; generally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as armanos=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | remember | gerund | few people not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | past | princess | princess's first arrival | by another name | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on arrival=Location | |||
| 6 | name | Camaralzaman | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | arrive | princess | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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