The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 44
Prince Perviz's grief at his brother's loss was not less than that of Princess Parizade, but he did not waste his time on useless lamentations.
Who acts: grief, brother · What happens: not be, not waste · To what, where: useless lamentations
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 (grief, brother), 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 | 4 grief | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Perviz | case |
| 4 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 less | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 loss | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loss | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 9 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grief | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 less | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 less | advmod |
| 12 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 less | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Parizade | case |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Parizade | compound |
| 17 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 that | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waste | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 waste | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 waste | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 waste | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 waste | advmod |
| 23 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 less | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waste | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 lamentations | case |
| 27 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lamentations | amod |
| 28 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 waste | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 less | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Perviz Prince's grief at Prince's brother's loss | than that; less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not waste | past · do-support | brother | time | on useless lamentations goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on lamentation=Goal |
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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