The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 56
When this man came he asked in what name the merchandise was to be registered.
Who acts: man, passenger · What happens: come, ask, name, register · To what, where: merchandise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, passenger), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 name | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 name | nsubj |
| 9 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchandise | det |
| 11 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 registered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 registered | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 registered | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 registered | aux:pass |
| 15 | registered | register | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 name | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | passenger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | name | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | register | past · passive | the merchandise | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=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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