The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 92
Shortly after these events, the grand-vizir died, and his post was given to the dervish.
Who acts: events · What happens: die, give · To what, where: post, dervish
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 (events), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 4 events | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 events | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 events | det |
| 4 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 died | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 events | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizir | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vizir | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 9 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 given | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 post | nmod:poss |
| 14 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux:pass |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 died | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 dervish | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dervish | det |
| 19 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | this events | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | vizir's post | the dervish | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to dervish=Recipient |
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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