The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 71
Their answer was that madness is of so many different kinds that it was impossible to give an opinion on the case without seeing the princess, so the Sultan gave orders that they were to be introduced into her chamber, one by one, every man according to his rank.
Who acts: answer, Sultan, man, doctors · What happens: be, give, see, introduce, accord, answer · To what, where: opinion, case, princess, orders, doctors, chamber
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 (answer, Sultan, man, doctors), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 answer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kinds | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kinds | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 kinds | mark |
| 5 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kinds | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kinds | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kinds | case |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kinds | amod |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kinds | amod |
| 11 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 impossible | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 impossible | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 impossible | cop |
| 15 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kinds | appos |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 impossible | xcomp |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 opinion | det |
| 19 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 case | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 case | det |
| 22 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opinion | nmod |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 seeing | mark |
| 24 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 give | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seeing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 gave | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sultan | det |
| 30 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kinds | parataxis |
| 32 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 gave | obj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 introduced | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 introduced | aux:pass |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 introduced | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 introduced | aux:pass |
| 38 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 gave | advcl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 chamber | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 41 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 introduced | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 one | punct |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 chamber | appos |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 one | case |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 one | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 man | punct |
| 47 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 man | det |
| 48 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 chamber | conj |
| 49 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 man | acl |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 according | fixed |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 rank | nmod:poss |
| 52 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 according | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kinds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | doctors's answer | of many different kinds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | a opinion | the case | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme on case=Asset | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | give | past | the Sultan | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 6 | introduce | past · passive | doctors = doctor | Princess's chamber and every man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | accord | gerund | every man not said here | Sultan's rank | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent rank=Theme | ||||
| 8 | answer | doctors = doctor | nom answer «communication 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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