The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 100
O genius," I said, "you see that this Sultan was not content with merely forgiving the envious man for the attempt on his life; he heaped rewards and riches upon him."
Who acts: man, you, Sultan · What happens: say, see, not be, forgive, heap · To what, where: envious man, rewards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, Sultan), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 genius | discourse |
| 2 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 genius | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 content | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 content | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 content | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 content | advmod |
| 16 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 see | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 forgiving | mark |
| 18 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 19 forgiving | advmod |
| 19 | forgiving | forgive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 content | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgiving | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 attempt | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 attempt | det |
| 25 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgiving | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attempt | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 heaped | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heaped | nsubj |
| 31 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 32 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 heaped | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 riches | cc |
| 34 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rewards | conj |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heaped | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | this Sultan | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forgive | gerund | this Sultan not said here | the envious man | for the attempt on man's life; merely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme for attempt=Attribute | |||
| 5 | heap | past | man | rewards and riches | upon Sultan | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reward=Theme upon he=Destination |
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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