The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 56
I dug up the earth till I reached a large stone with a ring in the centre.
Who acts: I · What happens: dig up, reach · To what, where: earth, large stone
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dug | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 earth | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dug | obj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dug | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stone | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ring | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 centre | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 centre | det |
| 17 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | I | the earth | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | I | a large stone | with a ring in the centre | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
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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