The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 4
The next day Hindbad, dressed in his best, returned to the voyager's house, and was received with open arms.
Who acts: next day · What happens: dress, return, receive · To what, where: Hindbad, best
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 (next day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | Hindbad | Hindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dressed | punct |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Hindbad | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 best | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 best | nmod:poss |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 voyager | det |
| 14 | voyager | voyager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 voyager | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 received | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 received | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 received | aux:pass |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 returned | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 arms | case |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 arms | amod |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 received | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | Hindbad not said here | Hindbad's best | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the next day | to the voyager's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · passive | the next day not said here | with open arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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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