The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 85
The ten young men were not present when I first entered, but came in soon after, accompanied by the old man.
Who acts: ten young men, I · What happens: not be, enter, come after, accompany
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 (ten young men, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 present | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 present | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 present | advmod |
| 7 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 entered | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 entered | advmod |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 present | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 present | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 came | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accompanied | punct |
| 19 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 came | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accompanied | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the ten young men | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | I | first property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come after | past | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | accompany | participle | by the old man | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by man=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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