The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 50
The fame of his virtue gradually spread abroad, and many people, including several of the highest quality, came to visit him and ask his prayers.
Who acts: fame, many people · What happens: spread, come, visit, ask, pray · To what, where: fame, prayers
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 (fame, many people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fame | det |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 virtue | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fame | nmod |
| 6 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quality | punct |
| 14 | including | including | ADP | _ | 19 quality | case |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 quality | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 quality | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 quality | det |
| 18 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 quality | amod |
| 19 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 people | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quality | punct |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 visit | mark |
| 23 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 came | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 visit | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ask | cc |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 visit | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ask | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | the fame of fame's virtue | abroad, gradually property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | many people including the several highest quality | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | many people including the several highest quality not said here | fame | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | many people including the several highest quality not said here | fame's prayers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prayer=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | pray | fame | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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