The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 20
The Persian was equally captivated by Noureddin, and said to herself: "The vizir does me too great honour in buying me for the king.
Who acts: Noureddin, vizir, great honour · What happens: captivate, say, do, buy · To what, where: Persian, Noureddin, great honour, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, vizir, great honour), 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 | 5 captivated | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 captivated | aux:pass |
| 4 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 5 captivated | advmod |
| 5 | captivated | captivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Noureddin | case |
| 7 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 captivated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 captivated | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vizir | det |
| 16 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 does | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 does | iobj |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 honour | amod |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 does | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 buying | mark |
| 23 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 honour | acl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 buying | iobj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 buying | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 captivated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | captivate | past · passive | Noureddin | the Persian | equally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Noureddin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | the vizir | great honour | me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | buy in a quote | gerund | great honour not said here | me | for the king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for king=Beneficiary |
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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