The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 40
As they were making ready for a third assault the Sultan interfered, and, sending one of his officials to summon them, he said smiling, "If I let you go on, there will soon be no beasts left to hunt.
Who acts: lion, Sultan, you, beasts · What happens: make, interfere, send, summon, say, smile · To what, where: third assault, one, lion, you, beasts · 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 (lion, Sultan, you, beasts), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 making | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 making | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 making | aux |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 said | advcl |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 making | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 assault | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 assault | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 assault | amod |
| 9 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 interfered | nsubj |
| 12 | interfered | interfere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 assault | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sending | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sending | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sending | punct |
| 16 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 making | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sending | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 officials | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 officials | nmod:poss |
| 20 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 summon | mark |
| 22 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sending | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 summon | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 said | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smiling | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 beasts | punct |
| 30 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 let | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 let | nsubj |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 be | advcl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | on | on | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 be | expl |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 be | aux |
| 39 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 be | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 beasts | cop |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 beasts | det |
| 42 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 smiling | obl |
| 43 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 beasts | acl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 hunt | mark |
| 45 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 left | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | lion | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | interfere | past | the Sultan | a third assault not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | gerund | lion not said here | one of Sultan's officials | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | summon | to-infinitive | lion not said here | lion | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | smile | gerund | Sultan not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Sultan | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go on in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is a in a quote | infinitive | no beasts | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | leave in a quote | participle | no beasts not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | hunt in a quote | to-infinitive | no beasts not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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