The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 4
Finally this resource also came to an end, and again he sought counsel from the beautiful Persian.
Who acts: resource · What happens: come, seek · To what, where: end, counsel, 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 (resource), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 resource | det |
| 3 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sought | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 sought | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sought | nsubj |
| 13 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sought | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Persian | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Persian | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Persian | amod |
| 18 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this resource | to a end | finally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | seek | past | resource | counsel | the beautiful Persian | again | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
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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