The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 69

The Greek king was naturally very weak, and did not perceive the wicked intention of his vizir, nor was he firm enough to keep to his first resolution.

Who acts: Greek king, king · What happens: be, not perceive, keep, intend, resolve · To what, where: wicked intention, 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 (Greek king, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weak	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weak	cop
5	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	7 weak	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 weak	advmod
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceive	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceive	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perceive	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 perceive	advmod
12	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 weak	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 intention	det
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 intention	amod
15	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceive	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 vizir	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 vizir	nmod:poss
18	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 intention	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 firm	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 firm	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 firm	cop
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 firm	nsubj
23	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weak	conj
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 firm	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 firm	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 resolution	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 resolution	nmod:poss
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 resolution	amod
30	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 weak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Greek king		naturally, weak property	tree rules
2	not perceive	past · do-support	the Greek king not said here	the wicked intention of king's vizir		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer intention=Stimulus
3	is	past	king		enough, firm property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	king not said here		to king's first resolution	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	intend			king's vizir		nom intention «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	resolve		king			nom resolution «communication 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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