The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 28
They told him the whole story, and how the Princess of Bengal was even then awaiting in the country palace the consent of the Sultan, which at once put into the Indian's head a plan of revenge for the treatment he had experienced.
Who acts: commands, Princess, Sultan · What happens: tell, await, put, experience, consent, plan · To what, where: whole story, Sultan, country palace, consent, Indian head, treatment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commands, Princess, Sultan), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 awaiting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 awaiting | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 awaiting | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 awaiting | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bengal | case |
| 13 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Princess | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 awaiting | aux |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 then | advmod |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 awaiting | advmod |
| 17 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | compound |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 awaiting | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 consent | det |
| 23 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sultan | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sultan | det |
| 26 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 consent | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 put | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 put | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 once | case |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 put | obl |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 consent | acl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 head | det |
| 34 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 head | amod |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Indian | case |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 plan | det |
| 38 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 revenge | case |
| 40 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 plan | nmod |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 treatment | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 treatment | det |
| 43 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 experienced | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 experienced | aux |
| 46 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 treatment | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | commands = command | the whole story | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | await | past · progressive | the Princess of Bengal | the country palace | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | participle · passive | the consent of the Sultan | the Indian head | for the treatment | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset plan=Goal | |||
| 4 | experience | past · perfect | Sultan | the treatment not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | consent | the Sultan | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | plan | revenge | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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