The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 113
He was obliged from time to time to take journeys to arrange his affairs.
What happens: oblige, take, arrange · To what, where: Scheherazade, journeys, affairs
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 arrange | mark |
| 12 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arrange | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Scheherazade | time | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | journeys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrange | to-infinitive | Scheherazade's affairs | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Product |
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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