The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 42

This Badi-al-Zaman--whose name means ‘Wonder-of-the-World’--was looked upon in Bagdad as the most fortunate creature under the sun, because of his vast wealth.

Who acts: name · What happens: mean, look · To what, where: Wonder, Badi

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Badi	det
2	Badi	Badi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looked	nsubj:pass
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 al	punct
4	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Badi	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Zaman	punct
6	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 al	flat
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 al	parataxis
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Wonder	punct
12	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 World	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 World	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 of	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 World	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 the	punct
18	World	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Wonder	appos
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 World	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Badi	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looked	aux:pass
22	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 Bagdad	case
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Bagdad	case
25	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
26	as	as	ADP	_	30 creature	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 creature	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 fortunate	advmod
29	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 creature	amod
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 sun	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun	det
33	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 creature	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wealth	punct
35	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	39 wealth	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 because	fixed
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wealth	nmod:poss
38	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wealth	amod
39	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	name	Wonder					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Topic
2	look	past · passive		this Badi				upon Bagdad; as the fortunate creature under the sun	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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