The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 54
Then, bidding me good-night, I was left to sleep.
What happens: bid, leave, sleep · To what, where: me, I
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bidding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidding | punct |
| 3 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bidding | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidding | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bidding | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sleep | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 left | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | me | then; night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | I | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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