The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 10
The Sultan, naturally enough, was still more furious the second time than the first, but when the same curious accident was repeated in the third year he could control himself no longer, and, to the great joy of the jealous sisters, commanded that the Sultana should be executed.
Who acts: Sultan, prince, great joy · What happens: be, repeat, control, command, execute, joy · To what, where: same curious accident, prince, Sultana, jealous sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, prince, great joy), 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 | 10 furious | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sultan | punct |
| 4 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 2 Sultan | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 naturally | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sultan | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 furious | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 furious | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 furious | advmod |
| 10 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 furious | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 first | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 first | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 control | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 control | cc |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 repeated | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 accident | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 accident | amod |
| 22 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 accident | amod |
| 23 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 repeated | aux:pass |
| 25 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 control | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 year | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 year | det |
| 28 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 year | amod |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 repeated | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 control | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 control | aux |
| 32 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 furious | parataxis |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 control | obj |
| 34 | no | no | ADV | _ | 35 longer | advmod |
| 35 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 control | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 commanded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 commanded | cc |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 joy | punct |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 joy | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 joy | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 joy | amod |
| 42 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 commanded | nsubj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 sisters | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sisters | det |
| 45 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sisters | amod |
| 46 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 joy | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 commanded | punct |
| 48 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 control | conj |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 executed | mark |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Sultana | det |
| 51 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 executed | aux |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 executed | aux:pass |
| 54 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 commanded | advcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan | still; time | furious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | repeat | past · passive | the same curious accident | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | control | could | prince | prince | long property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | command | past | the great joy of the jealous sisters | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | execute | should · passive | the Sultana | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | joy | the jealous sisters | nom joy «feeling 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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