The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 86
The Greek king," he went on, "had no mercy on him, and the executioner bound his eyes."
Who acts: Greek king, executioner · What happens: go on, have, bind · To what, where: mercy, eyes
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, executioner), 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 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 mercy | det |
| 13 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bound | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bound | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 executioner | det |
| 19 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bound | nsubj |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bound | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | past | the Greek king | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the Greek king not said here | no mercy | on king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient | |||
| 3 | bind | past | the executioner | king's eyes | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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