The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 26
These words troubled the heart of Baba-Abdalla, who prostrated himself at the feet of the Caliph.
Who acts: words, heart · What happens: trouble, prostrate · To what, where: heart, feet
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, heart), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 troubled | nsubj |
| 3 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prostrated | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Baba | case |
| 7 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Abdalla | punct |
| 9 | Abdalla | Abdalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Baba | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prostrated | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prostrated | nsubj |
| 12 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 troubled | ccomp |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 prostrated | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feet | det |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prostrated | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Caliph | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Caliph | det |
| 19 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 feet | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | past | this words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prostrate | past | the heart of Baba and Abdalla | heart | the feet of the Caliph | 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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