The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 57
Reassured by the kindness of the Caliph, Sidi-Nouman at length began his tale.
Who acts: Sidi · What happens: reassure, begin, tell · To what, where: tale, length · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Reassured | reassure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 began | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 kindness | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kindness | det |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reassured | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Caliph | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kindness | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sidi | punct |
| 9 | Sidi | Sidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Caliph | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nouman | punct |
| 11 | Nouman | Nouman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Caliph | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obl |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tale | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reassure | participle | by the kindness of the Caliph and Sidi and Nouman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | Sidi's tale | length | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell | Sidi | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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