The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 21

The fair Persian, astounded that he should wish to part from her, took her lute, and with tears in her eyes sang her reproaches to its music.

Who acts: fair Persian, Noureddin, tears · What happens: astound, wish, take, sing · To what, where: lute, reproaches, music

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 (fair Persian, Noureddin, tears), 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	3 Persian	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Persian	amod
3	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 astounded	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Persian	punct
5	astounded	astound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wish	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wish	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	aux
9	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 astounded	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 part	mark
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wish	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wish	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astounded	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lute	nmod:poss
17	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 tears	case
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tears	nmod
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astounded	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 reproaches	nmod:poss
27	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 music	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 music	nmod:poss
30	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sang	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 astounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	astound	past	the fair Persian				tree rules
2	wish	should	Noureddin			from lady	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	take	past	the fair Persian not said here	lady's lute			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lute=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	tears in lady's eyes	lady's reproaches	Persian's music		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reproach=Topic to music=Recipient

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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