The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 56
She would have continued, but her tears choked her, and the Sultan of Cashmere, convinced by her beauty and her distinguished air of the truth of her tale, ordered his followers to cut off the Indian's head, which was done immediately.
Who acts: Princess, tears, Sultan, followers · What happens: continue, choke, convince, order, cut off, do · To what, where: Princess, Sultan, followers, Indian head · 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 (Princess, tears, Sultan, followers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | aux |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 choked | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 choked | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 choked | nsubj |
| 9 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 choked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ordered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Cashmere | case |
| 16 | Cashmere | Cashmere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sultan | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 convinced | punct |
| 18 | convinced | convince | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Sultan | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 convinced | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 air | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 air | nmod:poss |
| 24 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 air | amod |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 truth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 truth | det |
| 28 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 air | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tale | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tale | nmod:poss |
| 31 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 truth | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sultan | punct |
| 33 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 followers | nmod:poss |
| 35 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ordered | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 cut | mark |
| 37 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ordered | xcomp |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 cut | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 head | det |
| 40 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 head | amod |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Indian | case |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cut | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 done | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 done | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 done | aux:pass |
| 46 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 head | acl:relcl |
| 47 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 46 done | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | would · perfect | Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choke | past | Princess's tears | Princess | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | convince | participle | the Sultan of Cashmere not said here | by Princess's beauty and Princess's distinguished air of the truth of Princess's tale | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | order | past | the Sultan of Cashmere | Sultan's followers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sultan's followers not said here | the Indian head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | do | past · passive | the Indian head | immediately property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | tell | Princess | nom tale «communication 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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