The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 21
Then he retired, without awaiting any reply from the princess.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: retire, await · To what, where: reply
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 retired | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 retired | nsubj |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 awaiting | punct |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 awaiting | mark |
| 6 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 retired | advcl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 reply | det |
| 8 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awaiting | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awaiting | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | Sultan | then | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | await | gerund | Sultan not said here | any reply | from the princess | tree rules |
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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