The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 80
Of course I did not always station myself in the same tree, but sometimes in one place, sometimes in another.
Who acts: I · What happens: do · To what, where: station, same tree
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 (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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 station | advmod |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 station | advmod |
| 7 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 station | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 place | cc |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 place | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 place | nummod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 another | punct |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 another | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 another | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 place | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | station myself | the same tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Eventuality |
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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