The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 90
She did not stop, however, till she had lit all the eighty, but Scheih Ibrahim was not conscious of this, and when, soon after that, Noureddin proposed to have some of the lustres lit, he answered:
Who acts: Heaven, Scheih Ibrahim, Noureddin, some · What happens: not stop, lit, not be, propose, have, light · To what, where: eighty
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 (Heaven, Scheih Ibrahim, Noureddin, some), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stop | advmod |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 stop | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lit | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 lit | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lit | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lit | aux |
| 11 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 stop | parataxis |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 eighty | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eighty | det |
| 14 | eighty | eighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lit | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 conscious | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 conscious | cc |
| 17 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ibrahim | compound |
| 18 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 conscious | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 conscious | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 conscious | advmod |
| 21 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lit | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 conscious | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 when | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 when | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stop | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 soon | punct |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stop | advmod |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 soon | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 proposed | punct |
| 32 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 proposed | nsubj |
| 33 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 have | mark |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 proposed | xcomp |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 lit | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 lustres | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 lustres | det |
| 39 | lustres | lustre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 some | nmod |
| 40 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 answered | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 answered | nsubj |
| 43 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 proposed | conj |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past · do-support | Heaven | however, soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lit | past · perfect | Heaven | all eighty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Scheih Ibrahim | of this; conscious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | propose | past | Noureddin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | light | past | some | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | answer speech: assert | past | Noureddin | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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