The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 81
The vizir, feeling that his end was at hand, sent for Noureddin, and charged him with his dying breath never to part with the beautiful Persian.
Who acts: vizir, end · What happens: feel, be, send, charge, die · To what, where: hand, bath
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 (vizir, end), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 vizir | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hand | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 end | nmod:poss |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hand | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Noureddin | case |
| 14 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 charged | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 charged | cc |
| 17 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 charged | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 breath | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 breath | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 breath | amod |
| 22 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charged | obl |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 part | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 part | mark |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charged | parataxis |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Persian | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Persian | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Persian | amod |
| 29 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 part | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | the vizir not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | vizir's end | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | hand not said here | for Noureddin | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | charge | past | the vizir | bath | with vizir's dying breath | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with breath=Theme | |||
| 5 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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