The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 38
Both his love and his courage alike forbade it; and he continued his way to the palace.
Who acts: love, Sultan · What happens: forbid, continue, love · To what, where: courage, way
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 (love, 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 love | cc:preconj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 love | nmod:poss |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forbade | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 courage | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 courage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 love | conj |
| 7 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 8 forbade | advmod |
| 8 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forbade | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 continued | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 continued | nsubj |
| 13 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forbade | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 continued | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 continued | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forbade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past | Sultan's love and Sultan's courage | courage | alike property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Sultan | Sultan's way | to the palace | tree rules | |||
| 3 | love | Sultan | nom love «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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