The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 11
The capital was utterly unprepared to stand a siege, and seeing that resistance was useless, at once opened its gates.
Who acts: capital, resistance · What happens: be, stand, see, open · To what, where: siege, gates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capital, resistance), 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:pg128:704): 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 | 2 capital | det |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unprepared | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unprepared | cop |
| 4 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 5 unprepared | advmod |
| 5 | unprepared | unprepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stand | mark |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unprepared | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 siege | det |
| 9 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opened | cc |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 opened | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 useless | mark |
| 14 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 useless | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 useless | cop |
| 16 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seeing | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 opened | advmod |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unprepared | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gates | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unprepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the capital | unprepared, utterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | the capital not said here | a siege | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer siege=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | resistance | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | open | past | the capital not said here | resistance's gates | once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=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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