The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 87
Balsora was the capital of a kingdom long tributary to the caliph.
Who acts: Balsora · What happens: be · To what, where: capital
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 (Balsora), 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 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 capital | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tributary | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tributary | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tributary | amod |
| 9 | tributary | tributary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 caliph | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 caliph | det |
| 12 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tributary | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Balsora | the capital | of a long tributary to the caliph | tree rules |
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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