The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 17
On hearing these words Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz understood all they owed their sister, and the knights who stood by declared themselves her slaves and ready to carry out her wishes.
Who acts: words, knights, stone · What happens: hear, understand, owe, stand by, declare, carry out · To what, where: words, sister, knights, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, knights, stone), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 understood | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 words | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Prince | cc |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bahman | conj |
| 9 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | flat |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 owed | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 owed | nsubj |
| 13 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understood | ccomp |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owed | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 declared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 declared | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knights | det |
| 19 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 declared | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 knights | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 stood | obl |
| 23 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understood | conj |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 declared | obj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 26 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 declared | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ready | cc |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 slaves | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 carry | mark |
| 30 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ready | xcomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 carry | compound:prt |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 carry | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | understand | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | owe | past | words = word | words's sister | all property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand by | past | the knights | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | the knights | knights = knight | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme slave=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | carry out | to-infinitive | the knights not said here | stone's wishes | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | wish | stone | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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