The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 80
They obtained permission of the Sultan to take up their abode in the palace for some weeks, and never left their sister night or day.
Who acts: plotters · What happens: obtain, take up, not leave, permit · To what, where: permission, abode, palace, Sultan
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 (plotters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obtained | nsubj |
| 2 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sultan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 permission | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 obtained | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 abode | nmod:poss |
| 11 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 weeks | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 weeks | det |
| 17 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 left | advmod |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obtained | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 night | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 night | compound |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 day | cc |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 night | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | plotters = plotter | permission of the Sultan | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset permission=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take up | to-infinitive | plotters = plotter not said here | plotters's abode | the palace | week | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in palace=Location | ||
| 3 | not leave | past | plotters = plotter not said here | night | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | permit | the Sultan | nom permission «communication 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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