The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 91
But the Cadi paid no attention to his threats, and was quite satisfied that he had done what was right.
Who acts: Cadi · What happens: pay, be, do · To what, where: attention
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 paid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cadi | det |
| 3 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 attention | det |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 threats | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 threats | nmod:poss |
| 9 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 satisfied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 satisfied | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 satisfied | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 satisfied | advmod |
| 14 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paid | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 done | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 satisfied | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 right | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 right | cop |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 done | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the Cadi | no attention | to Cadi's threats | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 2 | is | past | satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Cadi | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | right property | tree rules |
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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