The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 21
The seven culprits all thought their last hour had come, and the Caliph repented bitterly that he had not taken the vizir's advice.
Who acts: seven culprits, last hour, Caliph, man · What happens: think, come, repent, not take · To what, where: advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven culprits, last hour, Caliph, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:621): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 culprits | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 culprits | nummod |
| 3 | culprits | culprit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hour | amod |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 repented | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 repented | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Caliph | det |
| 14 | Caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repented | nsubj |
| 15 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 16 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 15 repented | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 taken | advmod |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 repented | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 vizir | det |
| 23 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 advice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 vizir | case |
| 25 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the seven culprits | all property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | culprits's last hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | repent | past | the Caliph | bitterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not take | past · perfect | man | the vizir's advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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