The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 24
Noureddin willingly granted this request, and recounted everything from the purchase of the slave down to the present moment.
Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: grant, recount, purchase · To what, where: request, everything, purchase, slave
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 (Noureddin), 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 2 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 3 granted | advmod |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 request | det |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 recounted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 recounted | cc |
| 8 | recounted | recount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 recounted | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 purchase | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 purchase | det |
| 12 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recounted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 slave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slave | det |
| 15 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 purchase | nmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 recounted | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moment | amod |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recounted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | Noureddin | this request | willingly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 2 | recount speech: other | past | Noureddin not said here | everything | the purchase of the slave | moment | down property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | |
| 3 | purchase | the slave | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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