The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 17
Noureddin--for so the vizir's son was named--went freely in and out of his mother's apartments.
Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: name, go · To what, where: son
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), 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 | 12 went | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 named | mark |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 named | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vizir | det |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 vizir | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 named | aux:pass |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Noureddin | acl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 14 in | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 apartments | cc |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 apartments | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 apartments | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 mother | case |
| 21 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | Noureddin not said here | the vizir's son | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Noureddin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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