The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 40
A doorkeeper, named Sangiar, who had been a slave of Khacan's, hearing this order given, slipped out of the king's apartment, and hastened to warn Noureddin to take flight instantly with the beautiful Persian.
Who acts: doorkeeper · What happens: name, be, hear, give, slip out, hasten · To what, where: doorkeeper, slave, order, apartment, Noureddin, flight
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 (doorkeeper), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doorkeeper | det |
| 2 | doorkeeper | doorkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 named | punct |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 doorkeeper | acl |
| 5 | Sangiar | Sangiar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slave | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 slave | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slave | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 slave | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 slave | det |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doorkeeper | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Khacan | case |
| 13 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slave | nmod |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Khacan | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hearing | punct |
| 16 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 doorkeeper | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 order | det |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hearing | obj |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 order | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 doorkeeper | punct |
| 21 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 apartment | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 apartment | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slipped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hastened | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hastened | cc |
| 30 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 slipped | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 warn | mark |
| 32 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 hastened | advcl |
| 33 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 warn | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 warn | xcomp |
| 36 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 35 take | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 Persian | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Persian | det |
| 40 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Persian | amod |
| 41 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a doorkeeper and a slave not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | a doorkeeper and a slave | a slave | of Khacan | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hear | gerund | a doorkeeper and a slave not said here | this order | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | this order not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | slip out | past | a doorkeeper and a slave | the king's apartment | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent apartment=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hasten | participle | a doorkeeper and a slave not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | a doorkeeper and a slave not said here | Noureddin | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent noureddin=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | take | to-infinitive | a doorkeeper and a slave not said here | flight | with the beautiful Persian; instantly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=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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