The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 22
Noureddin did as Hagi Hassan advised, to the great wrath of Saouy, who riding straight at him endeavoured to take the beautiful Persian from him by force.
Who acts: Noureddin, Hagi, great wrath · What happens: do, advise, ride, endeavour, take · To what, where: great wrath, beautiful Persian
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 (Noureddin, Hagi, great wrath), 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 advised | mark |
| 4 | Hagi | Hagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 advised | nsubj |
| 5 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hagi | flat |
| 6 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrath | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wrath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wrath | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wrath | amod |
| 11 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advised | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Saouy | case |
| 13 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wrath | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 riding | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 riding | nsubj |
| 16 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wrath | advcl |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 riding | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 20 endeavoured | mark |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 20 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 riding | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Persian | det |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Persian | amod |
| 25 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 force | case |
| 29 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Noureddin | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | Hagi | the great wrath of Saouy | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wrath=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | the great wrath of Saouy | straight property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | endeavour | past | Noureddin | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | the beautiful Persian | from Noureddin; by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent persian=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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