The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 114
One day, having to go a long way from home, he mounted his horse, taking with him a small wallet in which he had put a few biscuits and dates, because he had to pass through the desert where no food was to be got.
Who acts: One day, Scheherazade · What happens: have, go, mount, take, put, pass · To what, where: long way, home, horse, small wallet, few biscuits, desert
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: who acts (One day, Scheherazade), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 having | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mounted | nsubj |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 mounted | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taking | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wallet | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wallet | amod |
| 23 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 put | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 put | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 put | aux |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 wallet | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 biscuits | det |
| 30 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 biscuits | amod |
| 31 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 put | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dates | cc |
| 33 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 biscuits | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 had | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mounted | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 pass | mark |
| 39 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 had | xcomp |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 desert | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 desert | det |
| 42 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pass | obl |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 got | advmod |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 food | det |
| 45 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 got | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 got | cop |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 got | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 got | aux:pass |
| 49 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 desert | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | One day not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | One day not said here | a long way | home | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | mount | past | Scheherazade | Scheherazade's horse | day | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 4 | take | gerund | Scheherazade not said here | a small wallet | with Scheherazade | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme | |||
| 5 | put | past · perfect | Scheherazade | a few biscuits and dates | a small wallet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme in which=Destination | |||
| 6 | have | past | Scheherazade | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pass | to-infinitive | Scheherazade not said here | the desert | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through desert=Location | ||||
| 8 | is | past · passive | Scheherazade not said here | no food | get property | 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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