The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 106
Presently Scheih Ibrahim asked the beautiful Persian if anything were wanting to complete her enjoyment of the evening.
Who acts: Scheih, anything, saloon · What happens: ask, want, complete, enjoy · To what, where: enjoyment, evening
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 (Scheih, anything, saloon), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Scheih | flat |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Persian | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Persian | amod |
| 7 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 wanting | mark |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 wanting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wanting | aux |
| 11 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Persian | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 complete | mark |
| 13 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanting | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 enjoyment | nmod:poss |
| 15 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 complete | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 evening | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enjoyment | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Scheih | presently property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | anything | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | complete not said to happen | to-infinitive | anything not said here | saloon's enjoyment of the evening | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | saloon | the evening | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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