The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 34
As soon as Noureddin, son of the Vizir Khacan, bearer of this letter, has given it to thee, and thou hast read it, take off thy royal mantle, put it on his shoulders, and seat him in thy place without fail.
Who acts: thou · What happens: give, have, read, take off, put · To what, where: bearer, thee, royal mantle, mantle, shoulders
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 (thou), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 given | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 Noureddin | case |
| 4 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Noureddin | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Khacan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Khacan | det |
| 9 | Vizir | Vizir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Khacan | compound |
| 10 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bearer | punct |
| 12 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Khacan | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 letter | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 letter | det |
| 15 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bearer | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Noureddin | punct |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 given | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 thee | case |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hast | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hast | cc |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 hast | nsubj |
| 25 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | parataxis |
| 26 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hast | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 read | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 read | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 take | compound:prt |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 32 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mantle | amod |
| 33 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 read | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 shoulders | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 39 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 seat | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 seat | cc |
| 42 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 seat | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 place | case |
| 45 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 place | nmod:poss |
| 46 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 seat | nmod |
| 47 | without | without | ADP | _ | 48 fail | case |
| 48 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 place | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | bearer | thee | as Noureddin; seat in thy place without fail obl; soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | thou not said here | bearer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take off | infinitive | thou not said here | thy royal mantle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | thou not said here | mantle | Noureddin's shoulders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=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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