The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 34
As he spoke the friends and relations of the unhappy pair began to assemble.
Who acts: deal, friends · What happens: speak, begin, assemble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, friends), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friends | det |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 began | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 relations | cc |
| 7 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 friends | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pair | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pair | det |
| 10 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pair | amod |
| 11 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 relations | nmod |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 assemble | mark |
| 14 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | deal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the friends and relations of the unhappy pair | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | assemble | to-infinitive | the friends and relations of the unhappy pair not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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