The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 19
The Persian gladly consented, and sang and played so as to delight the Caliph.
Who acts: Persian · What happens: consent, sing, play, delight · To what, where: Caliph
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persian), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Persian | det |
| 2 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 consented | advmod |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sang | cc |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consented | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 played | cc |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sang | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 played | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 delight | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 delight | mark |
| 13 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 played | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Caliph | det |
| 15 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 delight | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Persian | gladly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the Persian not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | past | the Persian not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | delight | to-infinitive | the Persian not said here | the Caliph | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus caliph=Experiencer |
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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