The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 12
On learning that it was so, he promised to obtain the highest possible price for her.
Who acts: lord, room · What happens: learn, be, promise, obtain · To what, where: highest possible price
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 (lord, room), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 learning | mark |
| 2 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 promised | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 so | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 so | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 learning | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 learning | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 obtain | mark |
| 11 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 price | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 price | amod |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 price | amod |
| 15 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obtain | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 obtain | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | lord not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | room | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | lord | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | obtain not said to happen | to-infinitive | lord not said here | the highest possible price | for Hagi | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent price=Theme for she=Asset |
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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