The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 35
And while he was struck speechless with grief and remorse at not having guarded her better, she vanished swiftly out of his sight.
Who acts: object, Sultan · What happens: strike, guard, vanish, sight · To what, where: Sultan, sight
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 (object, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 struck | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | aux:pass |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struck | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 grief | case |
| 8 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remorse | cc |
| 10 | remorse | remorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grief | conj |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 guarded | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 having | advmod |
| 13 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 guarded | aux |
| 14 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 struck | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 better | nmod:poss |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 guarded | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vanished | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 vanished | nsubj |
| 19 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 guarded | conj |
| 20 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 19 vanished | advmod |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sight | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vanished | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | Sultan | with grief and remorse; speechless property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with grief=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | guard | gerund · perfect | good property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | object | Sultan's sight | swiftly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | sight | Sultan | nom sight «cognition 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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