The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 84
At length a day came when, one of his friends being admitted, urged him strongly to be consoled, and to resume his former place in society.
What happens: come, admit, urge, console, resume · To what, where: length, friends, vizir, former place, society
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 admitted | aux:pass |
| 13 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 friends | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 urged | punct |
| 15 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 urged | iobj |
| 17 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 15 urged | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 consoled | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consoled | aux:pass |
| 20 | consoled | console | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 urged | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 resume | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 resume | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 resume | mark |
| 24 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resume | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 society | case |
| 29 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resume | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | length a day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | gerund · passive | vizir's friends not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» | |||||
| 3 | urge | past | vizir | strongly property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | console | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 5 | resume | to-infinitive | vizir's former place | society | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |
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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