The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 33
"Haroun-al-Raschid, son of Mahdi, sends this letter to Mohammed Zinebi, his cousin.
Who acts: Haroun · What happens: send · To what, where: letter, Mohammed
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 (Haroun), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Haroun | punct |
| 2 | Haroun | Haroun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 al | punct |
| 4 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Haroun | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Raschid | punct |
| 6 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Haroun | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Haroun | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mahdi | case |
| 10 | Mahdi | Mahdi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Haroun | punct |
| 12 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 letter | det |
| 14 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sends | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Mohammed | case |
| 16 | Mohammed | Mohammed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 letter | nmod |
| 17 | Zinebi | Zinebi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mohammed | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cousin | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 letter | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present | Haroun and Raschid | this letter Raschid's cousin | Mohammed | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to mohammed=Destination |
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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