The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 94
One day, while the king amused himself talking with his two vizirs and other members of the council, the conversation turned on female slaves.
Who acts: king, conversation · What happens: amuse, talk, turn · To what, where: King, female slaves
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, conversation), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amused | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 amused | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 amused | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amused | nsubj |
| 7 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 amused | obj |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 amused | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 vizirs | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 vizirs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 vizirs | nummod |
| 13 | vizirs | vizir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talking | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 members | cc |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 members | amod |
| 16 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 vizirs | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 council | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 council | det |
| 19 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 members | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turned | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 conversation | det |
| 22 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | nsubj |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amused | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 slaves | case |
| 25 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 slaves | amod |
| 26 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past | the king | King | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | talk | gerund | the king not said here | with King's two vizirs and other members of the council | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with vizir=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the conversation | female slaves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on slave=Trajectory |
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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