The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 77
Noureddin, not hoping for so great indulgence, thanked his father, and vowed to do as he desired.
Who acts: Noureddin, father · What happens: not hope, thank, vow, do, desire · To what, where: father
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, 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoping | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hoping | advmod |
| 4 | hoping | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Noureddin | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 indulgence | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 indulgence | amod |
| 8 | indulgence | indulgence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 10 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thanked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vowed | cc |
| 15 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thanked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 vowed | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 desired | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 desired | nsubj |
| 20 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hope | gerund | Noureddin not said here | for great indulgence | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for indulgence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | Noureddin | vizir's father | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vow | past | Noureddin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | desire | past | father | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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