The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 10
Noureddin, convinced at length of the truth of her words, yielded, and reluctantly led her to the slave market, where, showing her to a dealer named Hagi Hassan, he inquired her value.
Who acts: necessity, Charming · What happens: yield, lead, show, name, inquire, word · To what, where: Charming, slave market, dealer, value
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (necessity, Charming), 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 convinced | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 3 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 length | case |
| 5 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 convinced | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 truth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 length | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 truth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yielded | punct |
| 13 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 convinced | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 led | cc |
| 16 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 17 led | advmod |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 convinced | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 market | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 market | det |
| 21 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 market | compound |
| 22 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 where | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 market | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 showing | punct |
| 26 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 led | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 showing | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 dealer | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dealer | det |
| 30 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 showing | obl |
| 31 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 dealer | acl |
| 32 | Hagi | Hagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 named | xcomp |
| 33 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Hagi | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 inquired | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 inquired | nsubj |
| 36 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 led | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 value | nmod:poss |
| 38 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 inquired | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past | Charming | the slave market | reluctantly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to market=Destination | |||
| 3 | show | gerund | Charming | a dealer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to dealer=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a dealer not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | inquire speech: other | past | necessity | Charming's value | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent value=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | word | Charming | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | value | Charming | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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