The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 75
So saying he gave me a supply of food, and returned to the town, and I perched myself high up in the tree and kept watch.
Who acts: forest, I · What happens: say, give, return, perch, keep · To what, where: supply, me, myself, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 supply | det |
| 7 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 supply | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 perched | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 perched | nsubj |
| 19 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 perched | obj |
| 21 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 perched | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perched | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 watch | cc |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 watch | amod |
| 28 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | forest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | forest | a supply of food | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient supply=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | forest not said here | to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 4 | perch | past | I | myself | the tree and kept watch | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in tree=Destination | |||
| 5 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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