The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 76
Saouy, who witnessed the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers, called to the executioner to strike at once.
Who acts: Saouy · What happens: witness, call, strike · To what, where: agitation, privy chambers, executioner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 witnessed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 witnessed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 witnessed | nsubj |
| 4 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 agitation | det |
| 6 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 witnessed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 agitation | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 windows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 windows | det |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 chambers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chambers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | privy | privy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chambers | amod |
| 18 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 windows | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 chambers | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 executioner | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 executioner | det |
| 23 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 strike | mark |
| 25 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 called | advcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 once | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 strike | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 witnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | past | Saouy | the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agitation=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the king's privy chambers not said here | the executioner | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to executioner=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | strike | to-infinitive | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at once=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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