The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 23
By the respect shown to her by the others, he judged that she must be the eldest, and in this he was right.
Who acts: lion, attention, this · What happens: show, judge, be · To what, where: respect, attention
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, attention, this), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 respect | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 respect | det |
| 3 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 judged | obl |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 respect | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shown | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 others | det |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 respect | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 judged | nsubj |
| 12 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 eldest | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 eldest | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 eldest | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 eldest | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eldest | det |
| 18 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 judged | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 right | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 right | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 this | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 right | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 right | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 right | cop |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 judged | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 judged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | participle | the respect not said here | attention | by the others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | judge | past | lion | by the respect | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | must | attention | eld property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this | right property | tree rules |
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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