The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 89
The Cadi allowed him to take the oath, and pronounced him innocent.
Who acts: Cadi · What happens: allow, take, pronounce · To what, where: Ali, oath
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 (Cadi), 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 Cadi | det |
| 2 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 allowed | nsubj |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 allowed | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oath | det |
| 8 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pronounced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pronounced | cc |
| 11 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pronounced | obj |
| 13 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pronounced | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the Cadi | Ali | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Cadi not said here | the oath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | past | the Cadi not said here | Ali | innocent property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
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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