The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 88
After a day and a night I reached my master's house, and was received by him with joyful surprise.
Who acts: I, house · What happens: reach, receive · To what, where: house
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, house), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 night | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 master | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 received | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 received | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 received | aux:pass |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reached | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 received | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 surprise | case |
| 20 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 surprise | amod |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | I | my master's house | day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | house | with joyful surprise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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