The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 77
The king, however, ordered him to delay; not only was he jealous of Saouy's interference, but he had another reason.
Who acts: king, Saouy · What happens: order, delay, not be, have, interfere · To what, where: Saouy, reason
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 ordered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ordered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 delay | mark |
| 9 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 jealous | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 jealous | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 jealous | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 jealous | cop |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jealous | nsubj |
| 15 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 delay | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 interference | case |
| 17 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 interference | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Saouy | case |
| 19 | interference | interference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jealous | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ordered | conj |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 reason | det |
| 25 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the king | Saouy | however property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | delay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | Saouy | of Saouy's interference; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Saouy | another reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 5 | interfere | Saouy | nom interference «communication intransitive»: poss=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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