The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 51
Sidi-Nouman changed colour as he heard these words, and his manner grew confused; but he saw plainly that there was no help for it.
Who acts: Sidi, manner, help · What happens: change, hear, grow, see, be · To what, where: colour, words
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 (Sidi, manner, help), 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 | Sidi | Sidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nouman | punct |
| 3 | Nouman | Nouman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sidi | flat |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 heard | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | advcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 manner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 16 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 21 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 20 saw | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 was | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | advcl |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 help | det |
| 26 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 was | nsubj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Sidi | colour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Sidi | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | Sidi's manner | confused property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | manner | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | be | past | no help for colour | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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