The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 78
A ten days' feast was proclaimed, and it seemed as if Aladdin might now live the rest of his life in peace; but it was not to be.
Who acts: it, Aladdin, feast · What happens: proclaim, seem, live, not be · To what, where: feast, rest, peace
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 (it, Aladdin, feast), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feast | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 days | case |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 7 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proclaimed | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 14 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 live | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | aux |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 live | advmod |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rest | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 peace | case |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 be | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 be | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 be | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 be | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 be | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 be | mark |
| 31 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 proclaimed | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past · passive | a ten days's feast | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | live a condition, not said to happen | might | Aladdin | the rest of Aladdin's life | peace | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rest=Location | ||
| 4 | not is | past | feast | be 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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