The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 34

But mortified and furious as the Sultan was, his feelings were nothing to those of Prince Firouz Schah, when he saw the object of his passionate devotion being borne rapidly away.

Who acts: feelings, Sultan · What happens: mortify, be, see, bear, devote · To what, where: nothing, object · 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 (feelings, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 mortified	cc
2	mortified	mortify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 furious	cc
4	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mortified	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 Sultan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 furious	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 furious	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feelings	nmod:poss
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nothing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	cop
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 mortified	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 nothing	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Firouz	case
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Firouz	nmod:desc
18	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 those	nmod
19	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Firouz	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 saw	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 object	det
25	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 borne	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 devotion	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 devotion	nmod:poss
28	passionate	passionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 devotion	amod
29	devotion	devotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 object	nmod
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 borne	aux:pass
31	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 saw	ccomp
32	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	33 away	advmod
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 borne	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mortified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mortify	past				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past			as the Sultan; furious property	tree rules
3	is a	past	Sultan's feelings	nothing	to those	tree rules
4	see	past	Sultan			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	bear	gerund · passive		the object of Sultan's passionate devotion	away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	devote		Sultan			nom devotion «feeling 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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