The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 52
So he prostrated himself before the throne of the Caliph and tried to obey, but the words stuck in his throat, and he remained silent.
Who acts: help, words · What happens: prostrate, try, obey, stick, remain · To what, where: help, throat
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 (help, words), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 prostrated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prostrated | nsubj |
| 3 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 prostrated | obj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throne | det |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prostrated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Caliph | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Caliph | det |
| 10 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 throne | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prostrated | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 obey | mark |
| 14 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stuck | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 stuck | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 words | det |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stuck | nsubj |
| 19 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prostrated | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 throat | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 throat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuck | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remained | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 remained | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 remained | nsubj |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prostrated | conj |
| 27 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 remained | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prostrate | past | help | help | before the throne of the Caliph | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past | help not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | help not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stick | past | the words | help's throat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination | ||||
| 5 | remain | past | help | silent property | 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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