The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
He grew extremely jealous of the physician, and determined to bring about his ruin.
Who acts: king · What happens: grow, bring, ruin
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 4 jealous | advmod |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 physician | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 physician | det |
| 7 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jealous | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 determined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 determined | cc |
| 10 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 determined | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 ruin | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ruin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | king | jealous property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | king not said here | about king's ruin | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ruin | king | nom ruin «state 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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