The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 91
In vain the Persian protested against the wrong he did himself; he continued to scatter with the same lavish hand.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: protest, do, continue, scatter · To what, where: vain Persian, vizir
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Persian | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Persian | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Persian | det |
| 4 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 protested | obl |
| 5 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 wrong | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wrong | det |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 protested | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 protested | parataxis |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 did | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 continued | nsubj |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 protested | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 scatter | mark |
| 16 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 continued | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 20 | lavish | lavish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scatter | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protest speech: disagree | past | the vain Persian | against the wrong | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against wrong=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | past | vizir | vizir | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | vizir | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | scatter | to-infinitive | vizir not said here | with the same lavish hand | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme |
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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