The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 31
Fortunately for me they seemed to hide in caverns of the rocks by day, and only came out by night, probably because of their enemy the roc.
Who acts: numbers · What happens: seem, hide, come out · To what, where: caverns
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (numbers), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Fortunately | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hide | mark |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 caverns | case |
| 9 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hide | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caverns | nmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 enemy | punct |
| 23 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 27 enemy | advmod |
| 24 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 27 enemy | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 because | fixed |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 27 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roc | det |
| 29 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enemy | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | numbers = number | fortunately property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | numbers = number not said here | caverns of the rocks | day | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cavern=Location | |||
| 3 | come out | past | numbers = number not said here | night | because numbers's enemy; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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