The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 30
The Sultan could hardly tear himself away from the Golden Water, which puzzled him more and more. "
Who acts: Sultan, Golden Water · What happens: tear away, puzzle · To what, where: Sultan
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Golden Water), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tear | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 tear | advmod |
| 5 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 tear | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 tear | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Water | det |
| 10 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Water | amod |
| 11 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tear | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 puzzled | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 puzzled | nsubj |
| 14 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Water | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 puzzled | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 puzzled | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 more | cc |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 more | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tear | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear away | could | the Sultan | Sultan | from the Golden Water; away, hardly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient from water=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | puzzle | past | the Golden Water | Sultan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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