The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished
What happens: punish · To what, where: Story
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Story | det |
| 2 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Punished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Vizir | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vizir | det |
| 5 | Vizir | Vizir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Story | nmod |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 Punished | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Punished | aux:pass |
| 8 | Punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past · passive | the Story of the Vizir | 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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