The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 88
During the time of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid the king of Balsora, who was his cousin, was called Zinebi.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, call · To what, where: cousin, king · 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 (king), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Caliph | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Caliph | det |
| 6 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | Haroun | Haroun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Caliph | flat |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 al | punct |
| 9 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Caliph | flat |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Raschid | punct |
| 11 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Caliph | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Balsora | case |
| 15 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cousin | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 cousin | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cousin | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cousin | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | aux:pass |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | Zinebi | Zinebi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king of Balsora | Balsora's cousin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | the king of Balsora | time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/88/