The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 26
He was carried before the Sultan, who ordered the executioner to cut off his head.
Who acts: executioner · What happens: carry, order, cut off · To what, where: vizir, executioner, head
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (executioner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Sultan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 executioner | det |
| 11 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cut | mark |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 cut | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | vizir | before the Sultan | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the executioner | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent executioner=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive | the executioner not said here | vizir's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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