The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 105
The Sultan then rested, and the young king gave himself up to happy hopes of release.
Who acts: Sultan, young king, release · What happens: rest, give up, hope · To what, where: Sultan
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, young king, release), 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 | 4 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rested | advmod |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gave | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hopes | case |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hopes | amod |
| 15 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 release | case |
| 17 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hopes | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the Sultan | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | the young king | Sultan | to happy hopes of release | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to hope=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hope | release | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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