The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 58
Also to while away the time of waiting I explored a little island named Cassel, which belonged to King Mihrage, and which was supposed to be inhabited by a spirit named Deggial.
Who acts: time, I, Cassel, spirit · What happens: while away, wait, explore, name, belong, suppose · To what, where: little island, King Mihrage, spirit
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 (time, I, Cassel, spirit), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 while | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 while | mark |
| 3 | while | while | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADP | _ | 3 while | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 while | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 waiting | mark |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 explored | nsubj |
| 10 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 island | amod |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explored | obj |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 island | acl |
| 15 | Cassel | Cassel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 named | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 belonged | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 belonged | nsubj |
| 18 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Cassel | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Mihrage | case |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mihrage | compound |
| 21 | Mihrage | Mihrage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 belonged | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 supposed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 supposed | cc |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 supposed | aux:pass |
| 26 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 while | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 inhabited | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 29 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 supposed | xcomp |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 spirit | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 spirit | det |
| 32 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 inhabited | obl |
| 33 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 spirit | acl |
| 34 | Deggial | Deggial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 named | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | while away | to-infinitive | time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | explore | past | I | a little island | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent island=Location | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a little island not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | belong | past | Cassel | King Mihrage | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | suppose | past · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | inhabit | to-infinitive · passive | a spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | name | participle | a spirit not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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