The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 32
Having thus ended his story, Sindbad ordered that one hundred sequins should be given to Hindbad, and the guests then withdrew; but after the next day's feast he began the account of his sixth voyage as follows.
Who acts: Having, Sindbad, guests, Bagdad · What happens: have, end, order, give, withdraw, begin · To what, where: story, hundred sequins, Hindbad, account, sixth voyage
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Having, Sindbad, guests, Bagdad), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ended | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 7 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sequins | nummod |
| 12 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ordered | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Hindbad | case |
| 17 | Hindbad | Hindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 withdrew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 withdrew | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guests | det |
| 21 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 withdrew | nsubj |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 withdrew | advmod |
| 23 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 began | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 began | cc |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 feast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 day | amod |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feast | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 day | case |
| 31 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 began | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 began | nsubj |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 account | det |
| 35 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 began | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 voyage | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 38 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 voyage | amod |
| 39 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 account | nmod |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 follows | mark |
| 41 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 began | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | end | past | Having | Bagdad's story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | order | past | Sindbad | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | should · passive | hundred sequins | Hindbad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hindbad=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | withdraw | past | the guests | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | Sindbad | the account of Bagdad's sixth voyage | after the next day's feast | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | follow | present | Sindbad not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | account | Bagdad's sixth voyage | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | voyage | Bagdad | nom voyage «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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