The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 93
When they were alone, Scheherazade addressed her thus:
Who acts: Sisters, Scheherazade · What happens: be, address · To what, where: cost
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 (Sisters, Scheherazade), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 were | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 addressed | advcl |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 were | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 6 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 addressed | nsubj |
| 7 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 addressed | obj |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 addressed | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Sisters = sister | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | address | past | Scheherazade | cost | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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