The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 115
He arrived without any mishap, and, having finished his business, set out on his return.
Who acts: Scheherazade, having · What happens: arrive, have, finish, set out, return · To what, where: business, return
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 (Scheherazade, having), 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 | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 mishap | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 mishap | det |
| 5 | mishap | mishap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 finished | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 having | punct |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 finished | csubj |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 business | nmod:poss |
| 12 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 finished | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 return | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 return | nmod:poss |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Scheherazade | without any mishap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | finish | past | having | Scheherazade's business | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality business=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | set out | participle | having not said here | Scheherazade's return | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | Scheherazade | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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