The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 77
The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to leave nothing undone that might deliver the princess, arrived with a large suite at the gate of the monastery, and was received by the dervishes with profound respect.
Who acts: sun, Sultan, dervishes · What happens: rise, be, leave, deliver, arrive, receive · To what, where: Sultan, nothing, princess
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 (sun, Sultan, dervishes), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 risen | advmod |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 Sultan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 anxious | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 anxious | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 anxious | cop |
| 13 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Sultan | amod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 anxious | advcl |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | undone | undone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nothing | amod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 deliver | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 deliver | aux |
| 20 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deliver | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arrived | punct |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 suite | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 suite | det |
| 27 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 suite | amod |
| 28 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 gate | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gate | det |
| 31 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 suite | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 monastery | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 monastery | det |
| 34 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gate | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 received | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 received | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 received | aux:pass |
| 38 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 arrived | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 dervishes | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dervishes | det |
| 41 | dervishes | dervish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 received | obl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 respect | case |
| 43 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 respect | amod |
| 44 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dervishes | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect | the sun | the Sultan | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before sultan=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Sultan | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | nothing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deliver | might | the princess | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||||
| 5 | arrive | past | the sun not said here | with a large suite at the gate of the monastery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | receive | past · passive | the dervishes with profound respect | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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