The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 86
By the vizir's orders his bonds were immediately undone, and Saouy was tied with the same cords.
Who acts: orders, vizir, king · What happens: undo, tie, order, bond · To what, where: Saouy
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 (orders, vizir, king), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 orders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizir | det |
| 3 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 vizir | case |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 undone | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bonds | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 orders | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 undone | aux:pass |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 undone | advmod |
| 10 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tied | cc |
| 13 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tied | aux:pass |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 undone | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cords | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cords | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cords | amod |
| 19 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tied | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 undone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past · passive | the vizir's orders king's bonds | immediately property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tie | past · passive | Saouy | with the same cords | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with cord=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | order | the vizir | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | bond | king | nom bond «phenomenon 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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