The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 135
The Sultan embraced him, the envious vizir meanwhile hinting that it was the work of enchantment.
Who acts: Sultan, envious vizir, task · What happens: embrace, hint, be · To what, where: Aladdin, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, envious vizir, task), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vizir | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizir | det |
| 7 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizir | amod |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | parataxis |
| 9 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 vizir | advmod |
| 10 | hinting | hint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 vizir | acl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 work | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 work | det |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hinting | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 enchantment | case |
| 17 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the Sultan | Aladdin | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | hint speech: other | gerund | the envious vizir not said here | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | task | the work | of enchantment | 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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