The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 90
They all replied with one accord that he deserved the hand of the princess.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: reply, deserve · To what, where: attendants, 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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 accord | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 accord | nummod |
| 6 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 deserved | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deserved | nsubj |
| 9 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deserved | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | attendants = attendant | with one accord | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deserve | past | Sultan | the hand of the princess | tree rules |
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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