The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 105
Then, seeing the beautiful Persian, he confided to her the statement of the steward, with many expressions of regret for his own carelessness.
Who acts: One · What happens: see, confide, state · To what, where: beautiful Persian, statement, Noureddin, steward
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 (One), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 confided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 confided | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Persian | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Persian | amod |
| 6 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seeing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 confided | nsubj |
| 9 | confided | confide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 confided | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 statement | det |
| 13 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confided | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 steward | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 steward | det |
| 16 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 statement | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expressions | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 expressions | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 expressions | amod |
| 20 | expressions | expression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 steward | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 regret | case |
| 22 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expressions | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 carelessness | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 carelessness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 carelessness | amod |
| 26 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expressions | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 confided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | One not said here | the beautiful Persian | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer persian=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | confide speech: other | past | One | the statement of the steward and many expressions of regret for One's own carelessness | Noureddin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent statement=Topic to she=Recipient | ||
| 3 | state | the steward and many expressions of regret for One's own carelessness | nom statement «communication 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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