The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 88
The Sultan was so delighted to hear these words that he not only embraced his daughter, but kissed the hand of the dervish.
Who acts: Sultan, words · What happens: be, hear, not embrace, kiss · To what, where: words, daughter, hand
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 (Sultan, words), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hear | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 embraced | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 embraced | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 embraced | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 embraced | advmod |
| 14 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 words | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 embraced | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kissed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 kissed | cc |
| 19 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 embraced | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kissed | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dervish | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dervish | det |
| 24 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not embrace | past | this words | Sultan's daughter | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | this words not said here | the hand of the dervish | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-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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