The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 16
The Persian thanked him for his advice, and promised to profit by it.
Who acts: Persian · What happens: thank, promise · To what, where: son, profit
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 (Persian), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Persian | det |
| 2 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 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 | 3 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 profit | mark |
| 12 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 promised | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Persian | son | for son's advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Persian not said here | profit | by Persian | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent profit=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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