The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 95
Then this wicked enchantress changed the capital, which was a very populous and flourishing city, into the lake and desert plain you saw.
Who acts: wicked enchantress, capital, lake, you · What happens: change, be, flourish, plain, see · To what, where: capital, populous, city
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 (wicked enchantress, capital, lake, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 changed | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 enchantress | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enchantress | amod |
| 4 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capital | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 populous | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 populous | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 populous | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 populous | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 populous | advmod |
| 13 | populous | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capital | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flourishing | cc |
| 15 | flourishing | flourish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 populous | conj |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flourishing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lake | punct |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 lake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lake | det |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plain | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 desert | cc |
| 22 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | conj |
| 23 | plain | plain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 changed | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 plain | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | this wicked enchantress | the capital | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the capital | a populous | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flourish | gerund | the capital not said here | city | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | plain | present | the lake and desert | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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