The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 47
It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in the city of Schiraz, taking part in the magnificent spectacles prepared by his subjects to do honour to the festival.
Who acts: Horse, king · What happens: be, spend, take, prepare, do, honour · To what, where: Feast, city, part, magnificent spectacles
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 (Horse, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Feast | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Feast | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Feast | det |
| 4 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Year | det |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Year | compound |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Feast | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 oldest | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oldest | det |
| 11 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 Year | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 splendid | cc |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 splendid | advmod |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 oldest | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 feasts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 feasts | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feasts | det |
| 18 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 splendid | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Kingdom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Kingdom | det |
| 21 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 feasts | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Persia | case |
| 23 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kingdom | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 spent | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 spent | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spent | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 spent | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 spent | aux:pass |
| 30 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Feast | parataxis |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 king | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spent | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 city | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 city | det |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spent | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Schiraz | case |
| 38 | Schiraz | Schiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 city | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 taking | punct |
| 40 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 spent | advcl |
| 41 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 taking | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 spectacles | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 spectacles | det |
| 44 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 spectacles | amod |
| 45 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 taking | obl |
| 46 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 spectacles | acl |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 subjects | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 49 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 prepared | obl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 do | mark |
| 51 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 prepared | advcl |
| 52 | honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 51 do | ccomp |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 festival | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 festival | det |
| 55 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 honour | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Horse | the Feast | of the New Year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spend | past · perfect · passive | the king | the city of Schiraz | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | the king not said here | part | the magnificent spectacles | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in spectacle=Location | |||
| 4 | prepare | participle | the magnificent spectacles not said here | by Schiraz's subjects | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | honour | infinitive | to the festival | 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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