The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 55
He is an abominable magician, who has this day torn me from the Prince of Persia, my destined husband, and has brought me here on this enchanted horse."
Who acts: lord, abominable magician · What happens: be, have, destine, bring, enchant · To what, where: abominable magician, me
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 (lord, abominable magician), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 magician | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 magician | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 4 | abominable | abominable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 magician | amod |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 magician | parataxis |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | torn | torn | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 day | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Persia | case |
| 17 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prince | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 husband | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 husband | amod |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 has | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | obj |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 brought | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 horse | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 horse | det |
| 30 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 horse | amod |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 magician | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 magician | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lord | a abominable magician | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a abominable magician | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | destine | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect | a abominable magician not said here | me | here | on this enchanted horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 5 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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