The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 9
This favourable moment was seized by the prince, who bowing low while he knelt, thus addressed her:
Who acts: prince · What happens: seize, bow, kneel, address · To what, where: favourable moment, princess
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | aux:pass |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowing | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bowing | nsubj |
| 11 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 prince | conj |
| 12 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 bowing | advmod |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 knelt | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knelt | nsubj |
| 15 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bowing | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 addressed | punct |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 addressed | advmod |
| 18 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 knelt | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 addressed | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the prince | this favourable moment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | the prince | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | address | past | prince not said here | princess | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination |
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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