The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 105
The Caliph, before giving way to his anger, determined to watch and see who the people were and what they did.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: give, watch, see, be, anger · To what, where: way, anger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 giving | mark |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Caliph | acl |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 anger | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 anger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 determined | punct |
| 11 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 watch | mark |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 determined | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 watch | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 did | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 did | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 did | cop |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 did | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 did | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | the Caliph not said here | way | Caliph's anger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to anger=Recipient | |||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | do property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | anger | Caliph | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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