The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 101
But the genius had made up his mind, and could not be softened. "
Who acts: man · What happens: make up, not soften, mind · To what, where: genius
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), 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 | _ | 5 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 genius | det |
| 3 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 softened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 softened | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 softened | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 softened | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 softened | aux:pass |
| 14 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 made | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · perfect · passive | the genius | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not soften | could · passive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||||
| 3 | mind | man | nom mind «cognition 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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