The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 22
But they made up their minds to die bravely, all except the porter, who loudly inquired of Zobeida why he was to suffer for other people's faults, and declared that these misfortunes would never have happened if it had not been for the Calenders, who always brought ill-luck.
Who acts: culprits, porter, man, misfortunes, Calenders, other people · What happens: make up, die, inquire, be, declare, not happen · To what, where: minds, ill luck · 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 (culprits, porter, man, misfortunes), 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 | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 minds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 die | mark |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 8 die | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 porter | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 porter | det |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 porter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 porter | det |
| 14 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inquired | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 inquired | nsubj |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 18 inquired | advmod |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 porter | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Zobeida | case |
| 20 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obl |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 suffer | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 suffer | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 suffer | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 suffer | mark |
| 25 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 inquired | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 faults | case |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 faults | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 people | case |
| 30 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 suffer | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 declared | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 declared | cc |
| 33 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 happened | mark |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 misfortunes | det |
| 36 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 happened | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 happened | aux |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 happened | advmod |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 happened | aux |
| 40 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 declared | ccomp |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 Calenders | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 Calenders | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 Calenders | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 Calenders | advmod |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 Calenders | cop |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 Calenders | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Calenders | det |
| 48 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 happened | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 brought | punct |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 brought | nsubj |
| 51 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 52 brought | advmod |
| 52 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 Calenders | acl:relcl |
| 53 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 luck | amod |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 ill | punct |
| 55 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 brought | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | culprits = culprit | culprits's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | culprits = culprit not said here | bravely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | all porter | of Zobeida; loudly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of zobeida=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man | for other people's faults; suffer property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | culprits = culprit not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not happen | would · perfect | this misfortunes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | porter | for the Calenders | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bring | past | the Calenders | ill luck | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | |||
| 9 | mind | culprits = culprit | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | fault | other people | nom fault «act transitive»: 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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