The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 64
"At length one day he dreamed that the following year a son would be born to him, and when this actually happened, he consulted all the wise men in the kingdom as to the future of the infant.
Who acts: land, this · What happens: dream, follow, bear, happen, consult · To what, where: length, son, land, wise men, kingdom
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 (land, this), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamed | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamed | obl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 length | flat |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 length | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dreamed | nsubj |
| 7 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 born | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dreamed | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 consulted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 consulted | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 happened | advmod |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 24 happened | advmod |
| 24 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 consulted | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happened | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 consulted | nsubj |
| 27 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreamed | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 men | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 men | det |
| 30 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 men | amod |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 consulted | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 kingdom | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 kingdom | det |
| 34 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 men | nmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 future | case |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 future | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 future | det |
| 38 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 consulted | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 infant | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 infant | det |
| 41 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 future | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | past | land | length day | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow in a quote | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | would · passive | a son | land | year | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | happen in a quote | past | this | actually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | consult in a quote | past | land | all wise men | the kingdom | as the future of the infant | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent man=Theme as future=Value |
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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