The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 37
Should he follow his father into the palace, and there give reins to his despair?
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: follow, give, despair · To what, where: father, palace, reins, despair
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 (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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 give | expl |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | conj |
| 13 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 despair | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 despair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | should | Sultan | Sultan's father | the palace | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent father=Theme into palace=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | give | present | Sultan not said here | reins | Sultan's despair | there | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rein=Theme to despair=Recipient | ||
| 3 | despair | Sultan | nom despair «state intransitive»: 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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