The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 11
Khacan thanked the merchant for his advice, and determined to follow it.
Who acts: Khacan · What happens: thank, follow · To what, where: merchant, advice
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 (Khacan), 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 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 advice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 determined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 determined | cc |
| 10 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thanked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 follow | mark |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 determined | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 follow | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Khacan | the merchant | for merchant's advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Khacan not said here | advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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