The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 81
Noureddin and the beautiful Persian, finding the wine excellent, drank of it freely, and while drinking they sang.
Who acts: Noureddin, invitations · What happens: find, drink, sing · To what, where: wine
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, invitations), 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 | 12 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Persian | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Persian | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Persian | amod |
| 5 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Noureddin | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finding | punct |
| 7 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Noureddin | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wine | det |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finding | obj |
| 10 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wine | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 12 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drank | obl |
| 15 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 12 drank | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 drinking | mark |
| 19 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sang | advcl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sang | nsubj |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drank | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | Noureddin not said here | the wine | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | Noureddin | of wine; freely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | invitations = invitation not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | invitations = invitation | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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