The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 7
The Sultan made no difficulty in consenting to this, and commanded that he should be ushered in to the princess's apartment.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: make, consent, command, usher · To what, where: difficulty, Sultan, apartment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 difficulty | det |
| 5 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 consenting | mark |
| 7 | consenting | consent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 consenting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commanded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 commanded | cc |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ushered | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ushered | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 ushered | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ushered | aux:pass |
| 17 | ushered | usher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 commanded | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 apartment | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 apartment | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 23 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ushered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Sultan | no difficulty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Product | ||||
| 2 | consent | gerund | the Sultan not said here | to this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | past | the Sultan not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | usher | should · passive | Sultan | the princess's apartment | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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