The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 37
The beautiful Persian, inconsolable at his departure, sank on a sofa bathed in tears.
Who acts: departure, Sangiar · What happens: sink, bath, depart · To what, where: sofa, tears
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 (departure, Sangiar), 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 | 5 inconsolable | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inconsolable | nsubj |
| 3 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inconsolable | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Persian | punct |
| 5 | inconsolable | inconsolable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 departure | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 departure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inconsolable | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sank | punct |
| 10 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 departure | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sofa | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sofa | det |
| 13 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | obl |
| 14 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sofa | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bathed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inconsolable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | Sangiar's departure not said here | a sofa | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bath | participle | a sofa not said here | tears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | depart | Sangiar | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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