The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 62
This advice appearing reasonable, Khacan decided to follow it, but his wrath against his son did not abate.
Who acts: advice, wrath · What happens: appear, decide, follow, not abate · To what, where: advice
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 (advice, wrath), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 advice | det |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | appearing | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 advice | acl |
| 4 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appearing | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 advice | punct |
| 6 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | nsubj |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 abate | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 abate | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 abate | nsubj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrath | nmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 abate | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 abate | advmod |
| 20 | abate | abate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | gerund | this advice not said here | reasonable property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | this advice | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | this advice not said here | advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not abate | past · do-support | Saouy's wrath against Saouy's son | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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