The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 36
Throwing himself on me like a madman, he tore me from my horse, beat me to his heart's content, and left me in the state your Majesty sees."
Who acts: king, Majesty · What happens: throw, tore, beat, leave, see · To what, where: king, me, content, state
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 (king, Majesty), 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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tore | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Throwing | obl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 madman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 madman | det |
| 7 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throwing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throwing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tore | nsubj |
| 10 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tore | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tore | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beat | punct |
| 16 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tore | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 beat | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 content | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 content | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 22 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beat | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 left | cc |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tore | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 left | iobj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 state | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 state | det |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sees | nsubj |
| 32 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 state | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tore | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | king not said here | king | on me; like a madman | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on i=Destination | |||
| 2 | tore | past | king | me | from my horse | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beat | infinitive | king not said here | me | king's heart's content | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to content=Recipient | |||
| 4 | leave | past | king not said here | me | the state | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in state=Location | |||
| 5 | see | present | your Majesty | the state not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer state=Stimulus |
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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