The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 12
Casting his eyes up to the sky he exclaimed aloud,
Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: cast up, exclaim · To what, where: eyes, sky
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad), 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 | Casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Casting | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Casting | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Casting | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sky | acl:relcl |
| 10 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 9 exclaimed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Casting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast up | gerund | Sindbad's eyes | the sky | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to sky=Destination | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Sindbad | the sky not said here | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sky=Topic |
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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