The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 81
For several days after Noureddin's departure with the letter the Caliph had forgotten to send the express with the patent, without which the letter was useless.
Who acts: Caliph, letter, Noureddin · What happens: forget, not send, be, depart · To what, where: letter, express
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 (Caliph, letter, Noureddin), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 departure | case |
| 5 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 departure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Noureddin | case |
| 7 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 letter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 departure | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forgotten | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | aux |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 letter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 send | mark |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forgotten | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 express | det |
| 18 | express | express | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 patent | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 patent | det |
| 21 | patent | patent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 useless | punct |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 useless | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 letter | det |
| 26 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 useless | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 useless | cop |
| 28 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 send | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | the Caliph | the letter not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not send | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | the express | with the patent | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent express=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the letter | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | depart | Noureddin | with the letter | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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