The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 40
After the young gentlemen had been at the trouble of sewing the sheep-skin on me they left me, and retired to the hall.
Who acts: young gentlemen, Gentlemen · What happens: be, sew, leave, retire · To what, where: sheep skin, me
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 (young gentlemen, Gentlemen), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gentlemen | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gentlemen | amod |
| 4 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trouble | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trouble | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 trouble | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trouble | det |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 sewing | mark |
| 11 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 trouble | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skin | det |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sheep | punct |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sewing | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | nmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 left | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 retired | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 retired | cc |
| 23 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 left | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hall | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hall | det |
| 26 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 retired | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the young gentlemen | after the trouble | on me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sew | gerund | the young gentlemen not said here | the sheep skin | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Product | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | Gentlemen = gentleman | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | retire | participle | Gentlemen = gentleman not said here | to the hall | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: 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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