The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 90
Not only did Noureddin's friends constantly partake of his hospitality, but in every way they took advantage of his generosity; everything of his that they admired, whether land, houses, baths, or any other source of his revenue, he immediately bestowed on them.
Who acts: friends, vizir · What happens: not do, partake, take, admire, bestow · To what, where: vizir, advantage, way, land houses
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 (friends, vizir), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Noureddin | case |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 partake | nsubj |
| 7 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 8 partake | advmod |
| 8 | partake | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hospitality | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 partake | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 19 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 generosity | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 generosity | nmod:poss |
| 22 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advantage | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 his | punct |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 his | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 his | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 did | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 admired | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 admired | nsubj |
| 29 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 his | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 houses | punct |
| 31 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 34 houses | mark |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 houses | compound |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 land | punct |
| 34 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 admired | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 baths | punct |
| 36 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 houses | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 source | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 source | cc |
| 39 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 source | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 source | amod |
| 41 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 admired | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 revenue | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 revenue | nmod:poss |
| 44 | revenue | revenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 source | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 bestowed | punct |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 bestowed | nsubj |
| 47 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 48 bestowed | advmod |
| 48 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 admired | conj |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 bestowed | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | vizir | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | partake | present | Noureddin's friends | of vizir's hospitality; constantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | friends = friend | advantage of vizir's generosity | every way | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent advantage=Value in way=Location | |||
| 4 | admire | past | friends = friend | land houses and baths | any other source of vizir's revenue obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | bestow | participle | vizir | on friends = friend; immediately property | tree rules |
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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