The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 17
The results of the journey gladdened his heart.
Who acts: results · What happens: gladden, result · To what, where: heart, journey
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (results), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 results | det |
| 2 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gladdened | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 journey | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 results | nmod |
| 6 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gladdened | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gladdened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gladden | participle | the results of the journey | Ali's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | result | the journey | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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