The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 85
Only the dervish guessed that they were uttered by Maimoum the son of Dimdim, who felt the princess escaping him.
Who acts: dervish, Maimoum, son, princess · What happens: guess, utter, feel, escape · To what, where: hairs, princess, dervish · 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 (dervish, Maimoum, son, princess), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 dervish | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dervish | det |
| 3 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 uttered | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 uttered | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 uttered | aux:pass |
| 8 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 guessed | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Maimoum | case |
| 10 | Maimoum | Maimoum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 uttered | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uttered | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dimdim | case |
| 14 | Dimdim | Dimdim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 son | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 felt | obj |
| 20 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 princess | acl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 escaping | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | the dervish | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past · passive | Maimoum | hairs = hair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the son of Dimdim | the princess | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 4 | escape | gerund | the princess not said here | dervish | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/85/