The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 77
Prince Perviz at first objected that, being the head of the family, his brother ought not to be allowed to expose himself to danger; but Prince Bahman would hear nothing, and retired to make the needful preparations for his journey.
Who acts: Perviz, brother, Bahman · What happens: object, be, not allow, expose, hear, retire · To what, where: that, head, brother, Perviz, danger, nothing
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 (Perviz, brother, Bahman), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Perviz | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 objected | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 objected | obl |
| 5 | objected | object | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 objected | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 head | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 head | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 objected | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 allowed | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 allowed | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 allowed | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 allowed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allowed | aux:pass |
| 21 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 objected | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 expose | mark |
| 23 | expose | expose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allowed | xcomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 expose | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 danger | case |
| 26 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 expose | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 hear | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 hear | cc |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 hear | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hear | aux |
| 32 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 objected | conj |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 hear | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 retired | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 retired | cc |
| 36 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 objected | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 retired | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 preparations | det |
| 40 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 preparations | amod |
| 41 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 make | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 journey | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 journey | nmod:poss |
| 44 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 preparations | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | participle | Perviz Prince | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | the head | of the family | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not allow | ought · passive | Perviz's brother | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | expose not said to happen | to-infinitive | Perviz's brother not said here | Perviz | danger | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to danger=Recipient | |||
| 5 | hear | would | Bahman Prince | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | retire | participle | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | the needful preparations | for Perviz's journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset | ||||
| 8 | journey | Perviz | nom journey «act 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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