The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 54
It was immediately granted, and holding the letter high above his head he forced his way through the crowd.
Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: grant, hold, force · To what, where: audience, letter, head, way, crowd
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 granted | aux:pass |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 granted | advmod |
| 4 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 holding | cc |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 granted | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 letter | det |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obj |
| 10 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 holding | advmod |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forced | nsubj |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 head | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 crowd | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crowd | det |
| 20 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | audience | immediately property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the letter | Noureddin's head | high property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme above head=Location | |||
| 3 | force | past | Noureddin | Noureddin's way | the crowd | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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