The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 76
They then took their leave, followed by Hindbad, who had once more received a hundred sequins, and with the rest had been bidden to return next day for the story of the fifth voyage.
Who acts: adventures, Hindbad · What happens: take, follow, have, receive, bid, return · To what, where: leave, hundred sequins
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 (adventures, Hindbad), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nmod:poss |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Hindbad | case |
| 9 | Hindbad | Hindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Hindbad | acl:relcl |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 received | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 received | advmod |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sequins | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sequins | nummod |
| 18 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 received | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bidden | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bidden | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bidden | obl |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bidden | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 bidden | aux:pass |
| 26 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 return | mark |
| 28 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bidden | xcomp |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 return | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 story | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 story | det |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 return | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 voyage | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 voyage | det |
| 36 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 voyage | amod |
| 37 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 story | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | adventures = adventure | adventures's leave | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | adventures = adventure not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Hindbad | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | receive | past | Hindbad not said here | a hundred sequins | once property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequin=Theme | |||
| 5 | bid | past · perfect · passive | adventures = adventure not said here | with the rest | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | return | to-infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | day | for the story of the fifth voyage | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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