The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 104
So he consulted with the young king over the best way to bring this about, and they agreed their plan should be put in effect the next day.
Who acts: Sultan, hills · What happens: consult, bring, agree, put, plan · To what, where: best way, this, plan, effect
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, hills), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 consulted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consulted | nsubj |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 consulted | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 agreed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 agreed | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 agreed | nsubj |
| 19 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consulted | parataxis |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 plan | nmod:poss |
| 21 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 put | aux:pass |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 agreed | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 effect | case |
| 26 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 day | amod |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | Sultan | the best way | with the young king | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | this | about property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | hills = hill | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | should · passive | hills's plan | effect | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in effect=Destination | |||
| 5 | plan | hills = hill | nom plan «cognition transitive»: 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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