The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 51
In the middle of the island they stopped, and after digging some time, lifted up what seemed to be a trapdoor.
Who acts: islands · What happens: stop, dig, lift up, seem, be · To what, where: middle, trapdoor
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 (islands), 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 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stopped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stopped | nsubj |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lifted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lifted | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 digging | mark |
| 12 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lifted | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 digging | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 digging | punct |
| 16 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stopped | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lifted | compound:prt |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lifted | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 trapdoor | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 trapdoor | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 trapdoor | det |
| 23 | trapdoor | trapdoor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | islands = island | the middle of the island | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | dig | gerund | time | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift up | participle | islands = island not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | a trapdoor | tree rules |
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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