The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 42
The accused merchant saw by this time that his condemnation was certain, and tried to allege something in his defence.
Who acts: accused merchant, condemnation, Ali · What happens: accuse, see, be, try, allege, condemn · To what, where: something, defence
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 (accused merchant, condemnation, Ali), 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 | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 certain | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 condemnation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | condemnation | condemnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 certain | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 certain | cop |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 allege | mark |
| 17 | allege | allege | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 allege | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 defence | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 defence | nmod:poss |
| 21 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 allege | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | participle | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | the accused merchant | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ali's condemnation | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | past | the accused merchant not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | allege speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the accused merchant not said here | something | Ali's defence | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 6 | condemn | Ali | nom condemnation «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | defend | Ali | nom defence «process transitive»: 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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