The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 65
After ten days Saouy determined to put an end to Noureddin's life, but dared not without the king's authority.
Who acts: Saouy · What happens: determine, put, not dare · To what, where: end
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 (Saouy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 determined | obl |
| 4 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Noureddin | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dared | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 dared | cc |
| 16 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 determined | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 dared | advmod |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 authority | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 authority | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Saouy | day | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | Saouy not said here | a end | to Noureddin's life | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 3 | not dare | past | Saouy not said here | without the king's authority | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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