The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 29
Probably the tales were written down about the time when Edward I. was fighting Robert Bruce.
Who acts: Edward I. · What happens: write down, fight · To what, where: tales, Robert Bruce
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 (Edward I.), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 written | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tales | det |
| 3 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 written | compound:prt |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 fighting | mark |
| 11 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 I. | compound |
| 12 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fighting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fighting | aux |
| 14 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 written | advcl |
| 15 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bruce | compound |
| 16 | Bruce | Bruce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fighting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | past · passive | the tales | time | probably property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | fight | past · progressive | Edward I. | Robert Bruce | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruce=Co-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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