The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 31
So the tailor picked up the hunchback by his head while his wife took his feet and carried him to the doctor's house.
Who acts: tailor, wife · What happens: pick up, take, carry · To what, where: hunchback, feet, house
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 (tailor, wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunchback | det |
| 7 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obl |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 took | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 doctor | det |
| 22 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 doctor | case |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the tailor | the hunchback | by Hunchback's head | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | past | Hunchback's wife | Hunchback's feet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Hunchback's wife not said here | Hunchback | the doctor's house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination |
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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