The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 8
The wife accepted the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw quite well that it must have come from the royal palace, he did not think it was his business to inquire further into the mystery.
Who acts: wife, intendant, baby · What happens: accept, see, come, not think, be, inquire · To what, where: baby, royal palace, business, mystery · 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 (wife, intendant, baby), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 intendant | det |
| 12 | intendant | intendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 saw | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 23 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 palace | amod |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 think | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 think | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 think | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 think | advmod |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 accepted | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 business | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 business | cop |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 business | nmod:poss |
| 33 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 think | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 inquire | mark |
| 35 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 business | acl |
| 36 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 inquire | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 mystery | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mystery | det |
| 39 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 inquire | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the wife | the baby | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the intendant | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | must · perfect | intendant | the royal palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | baby | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | intendant | baby's business | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | baby not said here | the mystery | far property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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