The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 95
While some declared that it sufficed for a slave to be beautiful, others, and Khacan was among the number, maintained that beauty alone was not enough, but that it must be accompanied by wit, wisdom, modesty, and, if possible, knowledge.
Who acts: some, conversation, Khacan, beauty, wit · What happens: declare, suffice, be, maintain, not be, accompany · To what, where: conversation · 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 (some, conversation, Khacan, beauty), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 declared | mark |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 sufficed | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sufficed | nsubj |
| 6 | sufficed | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 declared | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 slave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slave | det |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sufficed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 beautiful | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sufficed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 others | punct |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beautiful | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 number | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 number | cc |
| 17 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 number | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 number | cop |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 number | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 declared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 maintained | punct |
| 23 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 declared | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 enough | mark |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 enough | nsubj |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 beauty | advmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 enough | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 enough | advmod |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 maintained | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 accompanied | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 accompanied | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 accompanied | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 accompanied | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 36 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 declared | conj |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 wit | case |
| 38 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 accompanied | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wisdom | punct |
| 40 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wit | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 modesty | punct |
| 42 | modesty | modesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wit | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 knowledge | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 knowledge | cc |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 and | punct |
| 46 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 possible | mark |
| 47 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 knowledge | amod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 possible | punct |
| 49 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 accompanied | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | some | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | suffice | past | conversation | for a slave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | conversation not said here | others obl; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Khacan | among the number | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | maintain | past | some not said here | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is | past | beauty | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | accompany | must · passive | wit and wisdom and modesty | conversation | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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