The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 63
The king not only listened to the persuasions of Saouy, but gave Noureddin into his hands.
Who acts: king · What happens: not listen, give, persuade · To what, where: Noureddin, hands, Saouy
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 (king), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 listened | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 listened | advmod |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 persuasions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 persuasions | det |
| 8 | persuasions | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 listened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Saouy | case |
| 10 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 persuasions | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | conj |
| 14 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | participle | the king | to the persuasions of Saouy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to persuasion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the king not said here | Noureddin | king's hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme | |||
| 3 | persuade | Saouy | nom persuasion «communication 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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