The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 50
"The women, sire," said the bird, "were the sisters of the Sultana, who were devoured with jealousy at the honour you had done her, and in order to revenge themselves invented this story.
Who acts: women, you · What happens: say, be, devour, do, invent · To what, where: bird, sisters, honour, sire, story, revenge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (women, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 5 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 women | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sisters | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sisters | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sisters | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sisters | det |
| 15 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sultana | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sultana | det |
| 18 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sisters | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 devoured | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 devoured | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 devoured | aux:pass |
| 22 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sisters | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 jealousy | case |
| 24 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 devoured | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 honour | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 honour | det |
| 27 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 devoured | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 honour | acl:relcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 invented | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 invented | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 37 revenge | case |
| 35 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 in | fixed |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 revenge | mark |
| 37 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 invented | obl |
| 38 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 invented | nsubj |
| 39 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 story | det |
| 41 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 invented | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the women and sire | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the sisters | of the Sultana | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | devour in a quote | past · passive | the sisters | the honour | with jealousy | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | past · perfect | you | sire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | invent in a quote | past | women = woman | this story | revenge | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |
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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