The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 53
Zobeida and Amina made some difficulty about admitting the new comers, and Sadie knew the reason of their hesitation.
Who acts: Zobeida, difficulty, Sadie · What happens: make, admit, know, hesitate · To what, where: difficulty, new comers, reason
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 (Zobeida, difficulty, Sadie), 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 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Amina | cc |
| 3 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Zobeida | conj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 difficulty | det |
| 6 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 admitting | mark |
| 8 | admitting | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 difficulty | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 comers | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 comers | amod |
| 11 | comers | comer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 admitting | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 14 | Sadie | Sadie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reason | det |
| 17 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hesitation | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hesitation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reason | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Zobeida and Amina | some difficulty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Product | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | gerund | some difficulty not said here | the new comers | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Sadie | the reason of Zobeida's hesitation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hesitate | Zobeida | nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: 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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