The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
Now the king had a grand-vizir who was avaricious, and envious, and a very bad man.
Who acts: king, grand vizir · What happens: have, be · To what, where: grand vizir
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 (king, grand 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 vizir | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizir | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grand | punct |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 avaricious | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 avaricious | cop |
| 11 | avaricious | avaricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizir | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 envious | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 envious | cc |
| 14 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 bad | advmod |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 envious | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | a grand vizir | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a grand vizir | avaricious property | 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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