The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 103
Noureddin re-entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of his efforts to dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth.
Who acts: Noureddin, truth, friends · What happens: re-enter, see, dissemble, be, hear, spite · To what, where: spite, efforts
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin, truth, friends), 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | re-entering | re-enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Noureddin | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 re-entering | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spite | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spite | case |
| 12 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 efforts | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spite | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 dissemble | mark |
| 17 | dissemble | dissemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 efforts | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 what | mark |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | aux |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 truth | det |
| 26 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 what | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-enter | gerund | Noureddin not said here | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Noureddin | spite of lord's efforts | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spite=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dissemble | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the truth | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | friends = friend | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | spite | lord's efforts | nom spite «feeling 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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