The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 126
In the country of Zouman, in Persia, there lived a Greek king.
What happens: live · To what, where: Greek king, country
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 country | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Zouman | case |
| 5 | Zouman | Zouman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 country | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Persia | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Persia | case |
| 8 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zouman | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | expl |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 13 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Greek king | the country of Zouman and Persia; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
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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