The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 107
When the physician's head saw that the poison had taken effect, and that the king had only a few more minutes to live, "Tyrant," it cried, "see how cruelty and injustice are punished."
Who acts: head, poison, king · What happens: see, take, have, live, cry, punish · To what, where: effect, Tyrant, cruelty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, poison, king), 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 | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 physician | det |
| 3 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 physician | case |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 taken | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poison | det |
| 9 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cried | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 cried | advcl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 minutes | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 minutes | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 minutes | amod |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 minutes | amod |
| 23 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 minutes | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tyrant | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tyrant | punct |
| 28 | Tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cried | nsubj |
| 32 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 cried | parataxis |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 punished | advmod |
| 37 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 injustice | cc |
| 39 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cruelty | conj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 punished | aux:pass |
| 41 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 see | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the physician's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the poison | effect | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the king | Tyrant | minute | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | poison | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | punish in a quote | present · passive | cruelty and injustice | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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