The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 74
The day passed in conversation on various subjects, and I found him a youth of ready wit and of some learning.
Who acts: I · What happens: pass, find · To what, where: conversation, Agib
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 conversation | case |
| 5 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 subjects | case |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 subjects | amod |
| 8 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conversation | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wit | case |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wit | amod |
| 18 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 youth | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 learning | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 learning | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 learning | det |
| 22 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wit | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | conversation on various subjects | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in conversation=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | I | Agib | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme youth=Attribute |
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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