The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 116
On the fourth day of his journey, the heat of the sun being very great, he turned out of his road to rest under some trees.
Who acts: heat, Scheherazade, sun · What happens: be, turn out, rest, journey, heat · To what, where: road, trees
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 (heat, Scheherazade, sun), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heat | det |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heat | nmod |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 great | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 road | nmod:poss |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 rest | mark |
| 25 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | advcl |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 trees | det |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rest | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the heat of the sun | day | great property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn out | past | Scheherazade | Scheherazade's road | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | Scheherazade not said here | some trees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | journey | Scheherazade | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | heat | the sun | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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