The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 40
Then the merchants, scaring away the parent birds with shouts and outcries, would secure their treasures.
Who acts: merchants, parent birds · What happens: scare away, shout, secure, treasure · To what, where: parent birds, treasures
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, parent birds), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 merchants | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchants | det |
| 3 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 secure | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 merchants | punct |
| 5 | scaring | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 merchants | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 scaring | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 8 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 birds | compound |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scaring | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 shouts | case |
| 11 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 birds | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 outcries | cc |
| 13 | outcries | outcry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 birds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 merchants | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 secure | aux |
| 16 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 18 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 secure | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 secure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare away | gerund | the merchants not said here | the parent birds and outcries | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | the parent birds and outcries not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | secure | would | the merchants | merchants's treasures | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treasure | merchants = merchant | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/40/