The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 64
Having thus related the adventures of his second voyage, Sindbad again bestowed a hundred sequins upon Hindbad, inviting him to come again on the following day and hear how he fared upon his third voyage.
Who acts: Having, Sindbad, Bagdad · What happens: have, relate, bestow, invite, come, follow · To what, where: adventures, hundred sequins, Sindbad, second voyage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Having, Sindbad, Bagdad), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 related | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 adventures | det |
| 5 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 related | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 voyage | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 voyage | amod |
| 9 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adventures | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bestowed | punct |
| 11 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bestowed | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 bestowed | advmod |
| 13 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sequins | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sequins | nummod |
| 16 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bestowed | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 Hindbad | case |
| 18 | Hindbad | Hindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sequins | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inviting | punct |
| 20 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 bestowed | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 inviting | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 inviting | xcomp |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 27 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 day | amod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hear | cc |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 fared | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fared | nsubj |
| 33 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 hear | ccomp |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 voyage | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 36 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 voyage | amod |
| 37 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fared | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | relate | past | Having | the adventures of Bagdad's second voyage | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bestow | past | Sindbad | a hundred sequins | again | upon Hindbad | tree rules | ||
| 4 | invite | gerund | Sindbad not said here | Sindbad | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sindbad not said here | again; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | hear | present | Having not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | fare | past | Sindbad | upon Bagdad's third voyage | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | adventure | Bagdad's second voyage | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | voyage | Bagdad | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | voyage | Bagdad | nom voyage «act 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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