The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 8
Khacan, not wishing to bargain, immediately had the sum counted out, and given to the merchant, who before withdrawing said:
Who acts: Khacan · What happens: not wish, bargain, have, count out, give, withdraw · To what, where: sum, merchant · 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 (Khacan), 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 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wishing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wishing | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wishing | advmod |
| 4 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bargain | mark |
| 6 | bargain | bargain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wishing | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wishing | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sum | det |
| 11 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sum | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 counted | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 given | cc |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 merchant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 said | nsubj |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 said | mark |
| 23 | withdrawing | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 wishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | gerund | Khacan | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bargain not said to happen | to-infinitive | Khacan not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the sum | immediately property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Patient | ||||
| 4 | count out | participle | the sum not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | give | participle | the merchant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to merchant=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | withdraw | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | participle · passive | the merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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