The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 62
When the King of Cashmere had quitted her presence the evening before, he had resolved that the sun should not set again without the princess becoming his wife, and at daybreak proclamation of his intention was made throughout the town, by the sound of drums, trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments calculated to fill the heart with joy.
Who acts: sun, princess, sound · What happens: quitt, resolve, not set, become, make, calculate · To what, where: King, wife, daybreak proclamation, other instruments, heart, intention
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 (sun, princess, sound), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 quitted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quitted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Cashmere | case |
| 5 | Cashmere | Cashmere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quitted | aux |
| 7 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 presence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quitted | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quitted | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 quitted | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resolved | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 resolved | aux |
| 16 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 quitted | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 set | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 set | advmod |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 resolved | ccomp |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 set | advmod |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 27 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 princess | acl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 becoming | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 proclamation | case |
| 33 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 proclamation | compound |
| 34 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 intention | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 intention | nmod:poss |
| 37 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 proclamation | nmod |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 made | aux:pass |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 resolved | conj |
| 40 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 42 town | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 town | det |
| 42 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sound | punct |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 sound | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sound | det |
| 46 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 drums | case |
| 48 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 sound | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 trumpets | punct |
| 50 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 drums | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 cymbals | punct |
| 52 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 drums | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 instruments | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 instruments | cc |
| 55 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 instruments | amod |
| 56 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quitted | obl |
| 57 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 instruments | acl |
| 58 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 fill | mark |
| 59 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 calculated | xcomp |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 heart | det |
| 61 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 fill | obj |
| 62 | with | with | ADP | _ | 63 joy | case |
| 63 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 fill | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quitt | past · perfect · passive | the King of Cashmere | evening | other instruments obl; before property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | resolve | past · perfect · passive | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not set | should | the sun | again | without the princess | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | become | gerund | the princess not said here | sun's wife | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient wife=Result | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | the sound of drums and trumpets and cymbals | daybreak proclamation of sun's intention | throughout the town | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 6 | calculate | participle | other instruments not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fill | to-infinitive | the heart | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with joy=Instrument | ||||
| 8 | proclaim | sun's intention | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | intend | sun | nom intention «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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