The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 89
Not thinking one vizir enough for the administration of his estates he had two, named Khacan and Saouy.
Who acts: Balsora, two · What happens: not think, have, name, administer · To what, where: one vizir, two, estates · 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 (Balsora, two), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 vizir | nummod |
| 4 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinking | obj |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 administration | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 administration | det |
| 8 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 estates | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 estates | nmod:poss |
| 11 | estates | estate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 administration | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinking | ccomp |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 named | punct |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 had | xcomp |
| 17 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Saouy | cc |
| 19 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Khacan | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | gerund | one vizir | enough property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent vizir=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Balsora | two | for the administration of Balsora's estates | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | participle | two not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | administer | Balsora's estates | nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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