The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 100
When he had fought his way through the crowd and reached the chief of police,
Who acts: hangman · What happens: fight, reach · To what, where: way, crowd, chief
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hangman), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 fought | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | aux |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 crowd | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crowd | det |
| 9 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 police | case |
| 15 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chief | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · perfect | hangman | hangman's way | the crowd | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | reach | past | hangman not said here | the chief of police | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent chief=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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