The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 33
In my dreams an old man appeared to me and said, "Hearken, Agib!
Who acts: old man, Hearken, my · What happens: appear, say, dream · To what, where: me, dreams · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Hearken, my), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dreams | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | obl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 appeared | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hearken | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hearken | punct |
| 14 | Hearken | Hearken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Agib | punct |
| 16 | Agib | Agib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hearken | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a old man | me | my dreams | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hearken and Agib | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition 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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