The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 14
His first passion spent, the Sultan had regained his self-command. "
Who acts: first passion, Sultan · What happens: spend, regain, command · To what, where: self command · 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 (first passion, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 passion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 passion | amod |
| 3 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 regained | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 regained | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 regained | aux |
| 9 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 spent | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 command | nmod:poss |
| 11 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 command | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 self | punct |
| 13 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 regained | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | participle | prince's first passion | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | regain | past · perfect | the Sultan | Sultan's self command | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | Sultan | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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