The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 84
The vizir's first question was whether Noureddin were still alive.
Who acts: first question, vizir · What happens: be, question
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 (first question, vizir), 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 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 question | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizir | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 question | amod |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 alive | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 alive | cop |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 alive | mark |
| 8 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 alive | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 alive | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 alive | advmod |
| 11 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the vizir's first question | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | question | the vizir | nom question «communication transitive»: 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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