The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 26
The hunchback having agreed to his proposal, the tailor closed his shop and they set off together.
Who acts: hunchback, tailor · What happens: have, agree, close, set off, propose · To what, where: shop
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 (hunchback, tailor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunchback | det |
| 2 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hunchback | acl |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 having | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 proposal | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 7 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunchback | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tailor | det |
| 10 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closed | nsubj |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shop | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 closed | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the hunchback not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | the hunchback not said here | to Hunchback's proposal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | close | past | the hunchback | Hunchback's shop | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient | ||||
| 4 | set off | past | tailor | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | propose | Hunchback | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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