The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 67
Noureddin and the Persian entering, were dazzled with the magnificence they beheld.
Who acts: key · What happens: dazzle, behold · To what, where: Noureddin, magnificence
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 (key), 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 | 8 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 entering | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 entering | det |
| 4 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 entering | amod |
| 5 | entering | entering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Noureddin | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 8 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 magnificence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 magnificence | det |
| 11 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dazzled | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 magnificence | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | Noureddin and the Persian entering | with the magnificence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | key | the magnificence not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer magnificence=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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