The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 82
Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave.
Who acts: vizir, rich · What happens: expire, leave, follow · To what, where: universal regret, kingdom, vizir, grave
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, rich), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 expired | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expired | nsubj |
| 4 | expired | expire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 expired | advcl |
| 7 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 regret | amod |
| 8 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obj |
| 9 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kingdom | det |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rich | punct |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 poor | cc |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rich | conj |
| 16 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 17 followed | advmod |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expired | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 grave | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grave | det |
| 21 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expire | past | vizir | afterwards property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | vizir not said here | universal regret | the kingdom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent regret=Theme throughout kingdom=Location | |||
| 3 | follow | past | rich | vizir | the grave | alike property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Trajectory |
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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