The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 70
Days passed in this manner, till at last the Sultan of Cashmere decided to summon all the doctors of his court to consult together over her sad state.
Who acts: Days, Sultan · What happens: pass, decide, summon, consult · To what, where: manner, doctors, sad state
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 (Days, 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 | Days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 manner | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 manner | det |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 last | punct |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 passed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 decided | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Cashmere | case |
| 13 | Cashmere | Cashmere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sultan | nmod |
| 14 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 last | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 summon | mark |
| 16 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 decided | xcomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 doctors | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 doctors | det |
| 19 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 summon | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doctors | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 consult | mark |
| 24 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 summon | advcl |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 consult | advmod |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 state | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 state | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 state | amod |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consult | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Days | this manner | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | the Sultan of Cashmere | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | summon not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan of Cashmere not said here | all doctors of Sultan's court | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | consult | to-infinitive | the Sultan of Cashmere not said here | announcement's sad state | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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