The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 60
When night came the Sultan called his vizir, and said to him, "I have resolved to clear up this mystery.
Who acts: night, Sultan, I · What happens: come, call, say, resolve, clear up · To what, where: vizir, Sultan, mystery · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (night, Sultan, I), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 night | mark |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 vizir | nmod:poss |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 resolved | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 resolved | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 resolved | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 resolved | aux |
| 18 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 clear | mark |
| 20 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 resolved | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 clear | compound:prt |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 mystery | det |
| 23 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clear | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | past | the Sultan | Sultan's vizir | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | resolve in a quote | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | clear up in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | this mystery | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mystery=Source |
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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