The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 70
When the circle and the writing were finished she stood in the middle of it and repeated some verses from the Koran.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: finish, stand, repeat · To what, where: circle, middle, verses, Koran
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.
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 | 8 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 circle | det |
| 3 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 writing | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 writing | det |
| 6 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 circle | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux:pass |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stood | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 middle | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 repeated | cc |
| 17 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 verses | det |
| 19 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 repeated | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Koran | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Koran | det |
| 22 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 verses | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the circle and the writing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Queen | the middle of circle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 3 | repeat | past | Queen not said here | some verses | the Koran | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Eventuality |
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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