The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 70
Now to cure the princess the dervish must pull out seven of these white hairs, burn three, and with their smoke perfume the head of the princess.
Who acts: dervish, hairs · What happens: cure, pull out, burn, perfume, smoke · To what, where: princess, seven, three, head
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 (dervish, hairs), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cure | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 cure | mark |
| 3 | cure | cure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cure | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dervish | det |
| 7 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pull | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pull | aux |
| 9 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cure | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pull | compound:prt |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pull | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hairs | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 hairs | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hairs | amod |
| 15 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seven | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burn | punct |
| 17 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pull | parataxis |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 burn | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 perfume | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 perfume | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 smoke | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 smoke | nmod:poss |
| 23 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 perfume | obl |
| 24 | perfume | perfume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 burn | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 perfume | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 princess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 princess | det |
| 29 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | to-infinitive | the princess | now | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source | ||||
| 2 | pull out | must | the dervish | seven of this white hairs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | present | three | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perfume | present | the head of the princess | with hairs's smoke | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with smoke=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smoke | hairs = hair | nom smoke «phenomenon 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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