The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 17
He set one before each of the young men, together with a lighted taper.
Who acts: man · What happens: set, light · To what, where: one, each
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 set | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 each | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 together | punct |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 set | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 taper | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 taper | det |
| 14 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 taper | amod |
| 15 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | man | one | each | with a lighted taper; together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme before each=Destination | ||
| 2 | light | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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