The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 92
On the road I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a Calender's habit.
Who acts: I · What happens: cause, shave, put · To what, where: beard, road, habit
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beard | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyebrows | cc |
| 9 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beard | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shaved | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shaved | aux:pass |
| 12 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beard | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 caused | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 habit | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Calender | det |
| 18 | Calender | Calender | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 habit | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Calender | case |
| 20 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | I | my beard and eyebrows | the road | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition beard=Patient | |||
| 2 | shave | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | my beard and eyebrows not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | I not said here | a Calender's habit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on habit=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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