The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 46
Khacan, entering shortly after this, was much astonished to find his wife and her slaves in tears, and the beautiful Persian greatly perturbed.
Who acts: Khacan · What happens: enter, be, find · To what, where: wife
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 (Khacan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2317): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entering | punct |
| 3 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 astonished | advcl |
| 4 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 3 entering | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 entering | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entering | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 astonished | cop |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 astonished | advmod |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 astonished | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slaves | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 17 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wife | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perturbed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 perturbed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Persian | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Persian | amod |
| 24 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 perturbed | nsubj |
| 25 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 26 perturbed | advmod |
| 26 | perturbed | perturbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tears | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Khacan not said here | after this | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Khacan | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Khacan not said here | father's wife and wife's slaves | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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