The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 83
At this cruel order the physician threw himself on his knees. "
Who acts: physician · What happens: throw · To what, where: physician, cruel order
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 (physician), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 order | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 order | det |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 order | amod |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 physician | det |
| 6 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 threw | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 knees | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knees | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 threw | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the physician | physician | this cruel order | on physician's knees | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at order=Destination |
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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