The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 91
As to the king, the Caliph contented himself with sending him back to Balsora, with the recommendation to be more careful in future in the choice of his vizir.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: content, send, be · To what, where: Noureddin, future
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 king | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contented | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 contented | nsubj |
| 8 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 contented | obj |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 sending | mark |
| 11 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 contented | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sending | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 sending | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Balsora | case |
| 15 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 back | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 recommendation | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 recommendation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 recommendation | det |
| 19 | recommendation | recommendation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sending | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 careful | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 careful | cop |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 careful | advmod |
| 23 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 recommendation | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 future | case |
| 25 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 careful | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 choice | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 choice | det |
| 28 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 careful | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 vizir | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 vizir | nmod:poss |
| 31 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 choice | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | past | the Caliph | Noureddin | as the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | send | gerund | the Caliph not said here | Noureddin | with the recommendation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | future | in the choice of Noureddin's vizir; careful property | tree rules |
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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