The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 4
While he was speaking, the prince observed a change in the countenance of the dervish, who waited for some time before he made reply.
Who acts: dervish, prince · What happens: speak, observe, wait, reply · To what, where: change, countenance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 observed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 observed | nsubj |
| 8 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 change | det |
| 10 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 observed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 countenance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 countenance | det |
| 13 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dervish | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dervish | det |
| 16 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 countenance | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waited | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 waited | nsubj |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dervish | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waited | obl |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 reply | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reply | nsubj |
| 25 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 reply | aux |
| 26 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 waited | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | dervish | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | observe | past | the prince | a change | the countenance of the dervish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent change=Topic | |||
| 3 | wait | past | the dervish | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | may | Prince | vn respond-113 «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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