The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 14
Thus Sindbad ended the story of his seventh and last voyage, and turning to Hindbad he added:
Who acts: Sindbad, Bagdad · What happens: end, turn, add, voyage · To what, where: story, Hindbad · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sindbad, Bagdad), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 ended | advmod |
| 2 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 voyage | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voyage | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 last | cc |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seventh | conj |
| 11 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 added | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 added | cc |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 added | csubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Hindbad | case |
| 16 | Hindbad | Hindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 added | nsubj |
| 18 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | Sindbad | the story of Bagdad's seventh voyage | thus property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector story=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Hindbad | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hindbad=Result | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | Bagdad | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | voyage | Bagdad | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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