The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 49
Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed:
Who acts: father · What happens: wring, rend, exclaim · To what, where: hands, beard
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 (father), 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 | Wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 exclaimed | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wringing | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rending | cc |
| 5 | rending | rend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wringing | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beard | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rending | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wringing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wring | gerund | father not said here | father's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rend | gerund | father not said here | father's beard | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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