The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 75
So great was the indignation against Saouy that if anyone had set the example he would have been stoned on his way through the streets.
What happens: be, set, stone · To what, where: great indignation, anyone, Saouy, way
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 great | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 indignation | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 indignation | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 indignation | det |
| 5 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 Saouy | case |
| 7 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 indignation | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 stoned | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 set | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stoned | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 example | det |
| 14 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stoned | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stoned | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stoned | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 stoned | aux:pass |
| 19 | stoned | stone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 indignation | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stoned | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 streets | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 streets | det |
| 25 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 way | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 indignation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great indignation | against Saouy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | anyone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme example=Destination | |||||
| 3 | stone | would · perfect · passive | Saouy | Saouy's way through the streets | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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