The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 2
This done, he vanished, and I was in the likeness of an ape, and in a country I had never seen before.
Who acts: monkey, I · What happens: do, vanish, be, not see · To what, where: This, likeness, country
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vanished | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 vanished | nsubj |
| 5 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 likeness | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 likeness | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 likeness | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 likeness | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 likeness | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 likeness | det |
| 12 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vanished | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ape | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ape | det |
| 15 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 likeness | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seen | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 vanished | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | vanish | past | monkey | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | the likeness | of a ape | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect | I | a country | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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