The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 18
He was young, well-made and agreeable, and had the gift of charming all with whom he came in contact.
Who acts: son, gift · What happens: be, make, have, charm, come · To what, where: gift, all, contact
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 (son, gift), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 made | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 young | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 agreeable | cc |
| 9 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gift | det |
| 14 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 charming | mark |
| 16 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 gift | acl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 charming | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 whom | case |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 charming | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 contact | case |
| 23 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the gift | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | |||||
| 4 | charm | gerund | the gift not said here | all | with the gift | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | come | past | son | contact | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in contact=Location |
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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