The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 53
The poor man fulfilled his task with reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife dead.
Who acts: poor man, escape, day, Schahriar · What happens: fulfil, be, see, marry, task · To what, where: task, girl
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 (poor man, escape, day, Schahriar), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 4 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 task | nmod:poss |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfilled | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 reluctance | case |
| 8 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfilled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fulfilled | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 escape | det |
| 14 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fulfilled | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 girl | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dead | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dead | nsubj |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 saw | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past | the poor man | Schahriar's task | with reluctance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | no escape | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | every day | a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | marry | participle | a girl not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | task | Schahriar | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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