The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 104
Great was his surprise to see Scheih Ibrahim, whose sobriety he had never doubted, drinking and singing with a young man and a beautiful lady.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: be, see, not doubt, drink, sing · To what, where: Great surprise, Scheih, sobriety
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 (Caliph), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surprise | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprise | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprise | acl |
| 7 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Scheih | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sobriety | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 sobriety | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sobriety | sobriety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Scheih | appos |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doubted | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 doubted | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 doubted | advmod |
| 15 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 sobriety | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drinking | punct |
| 17 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 doubted | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 singing | cc |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 drinking | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 singing | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lady | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lady | amod |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Caliph's Great surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Scheih | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scheih=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not doubt | past · perfect | Caliph | Scheih's sobriety not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sobriety=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | gerund | Caliph not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | Caliph not said here | with a young man and a beautiful lady | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with man=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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