The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 12

The children of Ham, Shem and Japhet may have listened to them in the Ark, on wet days.

What happens: listen · To what, where: children, women, Ark

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 listened	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Ham	case
4	Ham	Ham	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Shem	punct
6	Shem	Shem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ham	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Japhet	cc
8	Japhet	Japhet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ham	conj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 listened	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 listened	aux
11	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 listened	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 Ark	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ark	det
16	Ark	Ark	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 listened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 days	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 days	case
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 days	amod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 listened	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	may · perfect · passive		the children of Ham and Shem and Japhet	women = woman	the Ark	day		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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