The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 85
The two queens lived in true sisterly harmony together, and after a time each presented King Camaralzaman with a son, whose births were celebrated throughout the kingdom with the utmost rejoicing.
Who acts: two queens, each · What happens: live, present, celebrate · To what, where: true sisterly harmony, King Camaralzaman, births
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 (two queens, each), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queens | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 queens | nummod |
| 3 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 harmony | case |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harmony | amod |
| 7 | sisterly | sisterly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harmony | amod |
| 8 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 presented | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 presented | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presented | obl |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 presented | nsubj |
| 16 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Camaralzaman | compound |
| 18 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 presented | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 son | det |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presented | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 celebrated | punct |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 births | nmod:poss |
| 24 | births | birth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 26 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 son | acl:relcl |
| 27 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 kingdom | det |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 celebrated | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 rejoicing | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rejoicing | det |
| 32 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rejoicing | amod |
| 33 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kingdom | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the two queens | true sisterly harmony | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in harmony=Location | |||
| 2 | present | past | each | King Camaralzaman | time | with a son | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Recipient with son=Theme | ||
| 3 | celebrate | past · passive | births | throughout the kingdom with the utmost rejoicing | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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