The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 66
Again after the feast was over did Sindbad claim the attention of his guests and began the account of his third voyage.
Who acts: feast, Sindbad, guests · What happens: be, claim, begin, attend, account, voyage · To what, where: attention, account, third voyage
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 (feast, Sindbad, guests), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 9 claim | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 over | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 claim | advcl |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 claim | aux |
| 8 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 claim | nsubj |
| 9 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 attention | det |
| 11 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claim | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 guests | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 guests | nmod:poss |
| 14 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 attention | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 claim | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 account | det |
| 18 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 voyage | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 voyage | amod |
| 22 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 account | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | past · do-support | Sindbad | the attention of Sindbad's guests | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent attention=Topic | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Sindbad not said here | the account of Sindbad's third voyage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | attend | Sindbad's guests | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | account | Sindbad's third voyage | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | voyage | Sindbad | 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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