The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 114
Overwhelmed with grief, he sought consolation from the beautiful Persian.
Who acts: thing · What happens: overwhelm, seek · To what, where: consolation, beautiful Persian
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 (thing), 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 | Overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sought | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 grief | case |
| 3 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overwhelmed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overwhelmed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Persian | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Persian | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Persian | amod |
| 11 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwhelm | participle | thing not said here | with grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | thing | consolation | the beautiful Persian | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consolation=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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