The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 89
In silence they all went down and called to the youth by name; then for a moment I heard no more.
Who acts: ships, I · What happens: go down, call, hear · To what, where: youth, more · 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 (ships, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 silence | case |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 youth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 heard | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 more | det |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 heard | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | ships = ship | in silence; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in silence=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | ships = ship not said here | the youth | by name | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hear | past | I | no more | then; moment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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