The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 72
The king granted these requests, and the announcement caused universal grief, for the memory of Noureddin's father was still fresh in the hearts of his people.
Who acts: king, announcement, father · What happens: grant, cause, be · To what, where: requests, universal grief, memory, hearts
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, announcement, father), 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 | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 requests | det |
| 5 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 granted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caused | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caused | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 announcement | det |
| 9 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | parataxis |
| 11 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grief | amod |
| 12 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 memory | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 memory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 memory | det |
| 16 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 fresh | mark |
| 18 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Noureddin | case |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fresh | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fresh | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 fresh | advmod |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 memory | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hearts | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hearts | det |
| 26 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fresh | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 people | nmod:poss |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hearts | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | the king | this requests | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the announcement | universal grief | for the memory | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition grief=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | Noureddin's father | the memory not said here | the hearts of Noureddin's people | still | fresh property | tree rules |
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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