The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 84
I left the terrace and wandered on till I came to a hall, which I knew to have been the one from which the roc had taken me, by the ten blue sofas against the wall.
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, wander, come, know, be, take · To what, where: terrace, hall, one, roc · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 terrace | det |
| 4 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wandered | cc |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 wandered | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wandered | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knew | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hall | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 one | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 one | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 taken | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 roc | det |
| 26 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 taken | aux |
| 28 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 one | parataxis |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 taken | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sofas | punct |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 sofas | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sofas | det |
| 33 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 sofas | nummod |
| 34 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sofas | amod |
| 35 | sofas | sofa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 taken | conj |
| 36 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 wall | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wall | det |
| 38 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sofas | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | I | the terrace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terrace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | I | a hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | know | past | I | a hall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the one | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | past · perfect · passive | the roc | from the one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination |
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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