The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 39
What had the vizir done," said the Greek king, "to merit the punishment?" "
Who acts: vizir · What happens: have, do, say, merit · To what, where: vizir, Greek king, punishment · 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 (vizir), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vizir | det |
| 4 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 vizir | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 king | amod |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 merit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 merit | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 merit | mark |
| 15 | merit | merit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 punishment | det |
| 17 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 merit | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 merit | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 merit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | participle | the vizir not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the vizir | the Greek king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | merit | to-infinitive | the punishment | tree rules |
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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