The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 78
When Sindbad had finished his story he gave another hundred sequins to Hindbad, who then departed with the other guests, but next day when they had all reassembled, and the banquet was ended, their host continued his adventures.
Who acts: Sindbad, hundred sequins, sequins, banquet, host · What happens: finish, give, depart, reassemble, be, continue · To what, where: Sindbad, hundred sequins, Hindbad, adventures
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 (Sindbad, hundred sequins, sequins, banquet), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gave | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 sequins | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sequins | nummod |
| 11 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Hindbad | case |
| 13 | Hindbad | Hindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sequins | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 departed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 departed | nsubj |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 departed | advmod |
| 17 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sequins | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 guests | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guests | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 guests | amod |
| 21 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 departed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reassembled | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 reassembled | cc |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reassembled | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 reassembled | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reassembled | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 reassembled | aux |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 reassembled | advmod |
| 30 | reassembled | reassemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gave | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ended | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ended | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 banquet | det |
| 34 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ended | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ended | cop |
| 36 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gave | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 continued | punct |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 host | nmod:poss |
| 39 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 continued | nsubj |
| 40 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | parataxis |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 42 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 continued | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | Sindbad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Sindbad | another hundred sequins | Hindbad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sequin=Theme to hindbad=Recipient | |||
| 3 | depart | past | another hundred sequins | then | with the other guests | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | reassemble | past · perfect | sequins = sequin | day | all property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is | past | the banquet | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | continue | past | sequins's host | host's adventures | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 7 | adventure | host | nom adventure «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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