The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 24
The events were often supposed to happen in the reign of the great Caliph, or ruler of the Faithful, Haroun al Raschid, who lived in Bagdad in 786-808 A.D.
Who acts: reign · What happens: suppose, happen, live · To what, where: events, reign, Bagdad
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 (reign), 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 events | det |
| 2 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 supposed | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 supposed | advmod |
| 5 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 happen | mark |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 supposed | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 reign | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reign | det |
| 10 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Caliph | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Caliph | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Caliph | amod |
| 14 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reign | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ruler | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 ruler | cc |
| 17 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Caliph | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Faithful | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Faithful | det |
| 20 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ruler | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 al | punct |
| 22 | Haroun | Haroun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 al | compound |
| 23 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Caliph | conj |
| 24 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 al | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reign | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Bagdad | case |
| 29 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 786-808 | case |
| 31 | 786-808 | 786-808 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 lived | obl |
| 32 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 786-808 | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | the events | often property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | to-infinitive | the reign of the great Caliph and Haroun al | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in reign=Location | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the reign of the great Caliph and Haroun al | Bagdad | in 786-808 A.D | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bagdad=Location |
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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