The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 93
The dervish made a sign that he might do as he liked, and when a few inches of his hair and beard had been pruned all round the prince assured the holy man that he would hardly believe how much younger he looked.
Who acts: dervish, prince · What happens: make, do, like, prune, assure, believe · To what, where: sign, few inches, holy man
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 (dervish, prince), 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 dervish | det |
| 2 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 liked | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 liked | nsubj |
| 12 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pruned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pruned | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 pruned | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 inches | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 inches | amod |
| 18 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pruned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inches | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beard | cc |
| 23 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hair | conj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pruned | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 pruned | aux:pass |
| 26 | pruned | prune | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 assured | advmod |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 prince | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 assured | obl |
| 31 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pruned | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 assured | obj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 believe | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 believe | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 believe | aux |
| 38 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 39 believe | advmod |
| 39 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 assured | ccomp |
| 40 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 much | advmod |
| 41 | much | much | ADV | _ | 42 younger | advmod |
| 42 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 believe | xcomp |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 looked | nsubj |
| 44 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 younger | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the dervish | a sign | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 2 | do | might | dervish | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | like | past | dervish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | prune | past · perfect · passive | a few inches of dervish's hair and beard | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | assure | past | the holy man | round the prince; all property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | believe | would | prince | hardly, young property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | look | past | prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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