The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 99
But the vizir pretended not to see, and turned his head away.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: pretend, not see, turn away · To what, where: head
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 (vizir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 pretended | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizir | det |
| 3 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pretended | nsubj |
| 4 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretended | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretended | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the vizir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see | to-infinitive | the vizir not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | turn away | past | the vizir not said here | vizir's head | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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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