The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 37
These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young.
Who acts: merchants, eagles · What happens: come, keep, hatch · To what, where: valley, eyries, rocks, young
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 (merchants, eagles), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 merchants | det |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 valley | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valley | det |
| 6 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eagles | det |
| 12 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyries | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyries | eyrie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rocks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rocks | det |
| 20 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hatched | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hatched | aux |
| 23 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | parataxis |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 young | nmod:poss |
| 25 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hatched | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this merchants | the valley | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | keep | present | the eagles | merchants's eyries | the rocks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eyrie=Theme in rock=Location | |||
| 3 | hatch | past · perfect | merchants's young | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent young=Product |
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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