The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 69
Here she traced a large circle and in it wrote several words in Arab characters.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: trace, write · To what, where: large circle, several words, circle
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 (Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:899): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 traced | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 traced | nsubj |
| 3 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 circle | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 circle | amod |
| 6 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traced | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrote | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrote | obl |
| 10 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 traced | conj |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrote | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 characters | case |
| 14 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 characters | amod |
| 15 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrote | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | past | Queen | a large circle | here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past | Queen not said here | several words | circle | in Arab characters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in it=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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