The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 6
Going up to him I greeted him in a friendly way, but he only nodded his head at me in reply.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: go up, greet, nod · To what, where: man, friendly way, head
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 (I, man), 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 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 greeted | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Going | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Going | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 greeted | nsubj |
| 6 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 greeted | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greeted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nodded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 nodded | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 nodded | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 nodded | advmod |
| 16 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 greeted | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nodded | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 nodded | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 reply | case |
| 22 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nodded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | gerund | I not said here | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | I | man | a friendly way | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | nod | past | man | man's head | at me; in reply | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in reply=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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