The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 52
This river which hid itself underground doubtless emerged again at some distant spot.
Who acts: river · What happens: hide, emerge · To what, where: river, distant spot
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 (river), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 hid | obj |
| 6 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doubtless | amod |
| 7 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hid | xcomp |
| 8 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 doubtless | acl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 emerged | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 spot | det |
| 12 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spot | amod |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emerged | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | this river | river | doubtless property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 2 | emerge | participle | some distant spot | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at spot=Location |
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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