The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 41
At these words Baba-Abdalla flung himself at the Caliph's feet, and prayed that honour and happiness might be his portion for ever.
Who acts: Baba, honour · What happens: fling, pray, be · To what, where: Abdalla, words, portion
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 (Baba, honour), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flung | obl |
| 4 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 flung | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Abdalla | punct |
| 6 | Abdalla | Abdalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Baba | conj |
| 7 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 flung | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caliph | det |
| 11 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Caliph | case |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prayed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prayed | cc |
| 16 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flung | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 portion | mark |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 portion | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happiness | cc |
| 20 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 honour | conj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 portion | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 portion | cop |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 portion | nmod:poss |
| 24 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prayed | ccomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 prayed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Baba and Abdalla | Abdalla | this words | at the Caliph's feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at word=Destination | ||
| 2 | pray | past | Baba and Abdalla not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ever=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | might | honour and happiness | Caliph's portion | 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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