The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 39
When the blind man had ended the Caliph addressed him: "Baba-Abdalla, truly your sin is great, but you have suffered enough.
Who acts: blind man, Caliph, Baba, you · What happens: end, address, be, suffer · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind man, Caliph, Baba, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ended | aux |
| 6 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 addressed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 addressed | nsubj |
| 9 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 addressed | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 great | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 great | punct |
| 13 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 great | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Abdalla | punct |
| 15 | Abdalla | Abdalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Baba | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 great | punct |
| 17 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 21 great | advmod |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 great | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 great | cop |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 addressed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 suffered | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 suffered | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 suffered | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 suffered | aux |
| 26 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 addressed | conj |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 26 suffered | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect | the blind man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | address | past | the Caliph | man | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Baba and Abdalla | great, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | present · perfect | you | enough property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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