The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 13

Hector's little boy may have heard them in Troy Town, for it is certain that Homer knew them, and that some of them were written down in Egypt about the time of Moses.

Who acts: little boy, it, Homer · What happens: hear, be, know, write down · To what, where: women, Troy Town, some, Egypt

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 (little boy, it, Homer), 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	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hector	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Town	case
10	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Town	compound
11	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 certain	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 certain	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 certain	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 certain	cop
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heard	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 knew	mark
18	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 certain	ccomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 written	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 written	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 written	mark
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 written	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 some	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 written	aux:pass
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 knew	advcl
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 written	compound:prt
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Egypt	case
31	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 written	obl
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 written	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Moses	case
36	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 time	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	may · perfect	Hector's little boy	women = woman	Troy Town			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is	present	it				certain property	tree rules
3	know	past	Homer	women = woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	write down	past · passive		some	Egypt	time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in egypt=Destination

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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