The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 75
The Sultan, who was sitting in his closet, mourning for his lost daughter, happened to look up, and rubbed his eyes, for there stood the palace as before!
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: sit, mourn, lose, happen, look up, rub · To what, where: closet, eyes, palace
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 (Sultan), 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 | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 closet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 closet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mourning | punct |
| 11 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sitting | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happened | punct |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 happened | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 look | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rubbed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rubbed | cc |
| 23 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rubbed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stood | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 stood | mark |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 stood | advmod |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rubbed | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 before | case |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 29 stood | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the Sultan | Sultan's closet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location | ||||
| 2 | mourn | gerund | the Sultan not said here | for Sultan's lost daughter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for daughter=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | look up | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | rub | past | Sultan's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stand | past | the palace | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
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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