The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 2
When the Prince of Persia, in the disguise of a physician, was brought before him, the Sultan wasted no time in talking, beyond remarking that the mere sight of a doctor threw the princess into transports of rage.
Who acts: Sultan, time, mere sight · What happens: bring, waste, talk, remark, throw, sight · To what, where: Prince, princess, transports, doctor
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, time, mere sight), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Persia | case |
| 5 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disguise | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 disguise | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disguise | det |
| 9 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 physician | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 physician | det |
| 12 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disguise | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wasted | advcl |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sultan | det |
| 20 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wasted | nsubj |
| 21 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wasted | obj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 talking | mark |
| 25 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remarking | punct |
| 27 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 28 remarking | mark |
| 28 | remarking | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 talking | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 threw | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sight | det |
| 31 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sight | amod |
| 32 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 threw | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 doctor | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 doctor | det |
| 35 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sight | nmod |
| 36 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 remarking | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 princess | det |
| 38 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 threw | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 transports | case |
| 40 | transports | transport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 threw | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 rage | case |
| 42 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 transports | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 wasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the Prince of Persia | before Persia | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | waste | past | the Sultan | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | no time not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | gerund | no time not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | throw | past | the mere sight of a doctor | the princess | into transports of rage result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer princess=Theme into transport=Result | |||
| 6 | sight | a doctor | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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