The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 14

Haroun-al-Raschid was lost in astonishment at the wisdom of the child, who had given so wise a verdict on the case which he himself was to hear on the morrow. "

Who acts: child, game · What happens: lose, give, be · To what, where: Haroun, astonishment, wise verdict, case, morrow

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, game), 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	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj:pass
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 al	punct
3	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Haroun	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Raschid	punct
5	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Haroun	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 astonishment	case
9	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 wisdom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wisdom	det
12	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 child	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wisdom	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 given	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 child	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 wise	advmod
21	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 verdict	amod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 verdict	det
23	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 case	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 case	det
26	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 verdict	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 hear	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hear	nsubj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	28 he	nmod:unmarked
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hear	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 hear	mark
32	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wisdom	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 morrow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 morrow	det
35	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hear	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		Haroun and Raschid	astonishment	at the wisdom of the child	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	give	past · perfect	the child	a wise verdict	the case		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent verdict=Theme on case=Asset
3	is	past	game		the morrow	hear 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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