The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 20
He followed the servant into a vast room, where a great company was seated round a table covered with all sorts of delicacies.
Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: follow, seat, cover, sort · To what, where: servant, vast room, great company, table, delicacies
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 7 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 room | amod |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seated | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 seated | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 company | amod |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seated | aux:pass |
| 15 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 room | acl:relcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seated | obl |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 table | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sorts | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sorts | det |
| 22 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 delicacies | case |
| 24 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sorts | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Sindbad | the servant | a vast room | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent servant=Theme into room=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | a great company | round a table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a table not said here | with all sorts of delicacies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sort | delicacies | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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