The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 45
Luckily for me the merchants were on the watch, and setting up their usual outcries they rushed to the nest scaring away the eagle.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: be, set up, rush, scare away, outcry · To what, where: watch, usual outcries, nest, eagle
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), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 9 watch | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Luckily | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchants | det |
| 5 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watch | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 watch | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 watch | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 watch | det |
| 9 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rushed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rushed | cc |
| 12 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 rushed | csubj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 setting | compound:prt |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 outcries | nmod:poss |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 outcries | amod |
| 16 | outcries | outcry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 setting | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rushed | nsubj |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 watch | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 nest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nest | det |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | obl |
| 22 | scaring | scare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 rushed | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 scaring | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eagle | det |
| 25 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scaring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merchants | the watch | luckily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set up | gerund | merchants's usual outcries | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient outcry=Result | |||||
| 3 | rush | past | merchants = merchant | the nest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination | ||||
| 4 | scare away | gerund | merchants = merchant not said here | the eagle | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eagle=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | outcry | merchants = merchant | nom outcry «communication 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.
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