The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 52
His wife tried to console him, saying: "Do not torment thyself.
Who acts: wife · What happens: try, say, not torment · To what, where: console, thyself · 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 (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 console | mark |
| 5 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | obj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 console | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tried | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 torment | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 torment | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 torment | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 torment | advmod |
| 13 | torment | torment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 13 torment | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | king's wife | console | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | king's wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not torment in a quote | infinitive · do-support | thyself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thyself=Experiencer |
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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