The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 16
At sunset the giant returned, supped upon one of our unhappy comrades, slept and snored till dawn, and then left us as before.
Who acts: giant · What happens: return, sup, sleep, snore, leave · To what, where: unhappy comrades, us
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sunset | case |
| 2 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 supped | punct |
| 7 | supped | sup | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 supped | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 comrades | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 12 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 comrades | amod |
| 13 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slept | punct |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 comrades | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 snored | cc |
| 17 | snored | snore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 slept | conj |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 dawn | case |
| 19 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snored | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 left | advmod |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 left | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 before | advmod |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 left | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the giant | sunset | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sup | participle | the giant not said here | upon one of our unhappy comrades | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | participle | our unhappy comrades not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | snore | participle | dawn | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | the giant not said here | us | then | before property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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