The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 127
This king was a leper, and all his doctors had been unable to cure him, when a very clever physician came to his court.
Who acts: king, doctors, clever physician · What happens: be, cure, come · To what, where: leper, king, court
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: who acts (king, doctors, clever physician), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leper | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leper | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 leper | det |
| 5 | leper | leper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unable | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unable | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 doctors | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 doctors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 unable | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unable | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 unable | cop |
| 13 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leper | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cure | mark |
| 15 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unable | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cure | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 came | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 physician | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 clever | advmod |
| 21 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 physician | amod |
| 22 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leper | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 court | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 court | nmod:poss |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this king | a leper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | king's doctors | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | king's doctors not said here | king | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a clever physician | king's court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_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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