The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 72
Though he was very drunk, he was yet sober enough to know that the dawn was at hand, and that all good Mussulmen would shortly be going to prayer.
Who acts: revenge, dawn, good Mussulmen · What happens: be, know, go · To what, where: hand, prayer
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 (revenge, dawn, good Mussulmen), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 drunk | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drunk | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drunk | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 drunk | advmod |
| 5 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sober | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sober | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sober | cop |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 sober | advmod |
| 10 | sober | sober | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drunk | conj |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 sober | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sober | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hand | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dawn | det |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hand | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hand | cop |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drunk | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 going | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 going | mark |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 Mussulmen | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Mussulmen | amod |
| 25 | Mussulmen | Mussulmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 going | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 27 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 29 going | advmod |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 going | aux |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 drunk | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 prayer | case |
| 31 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 going | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | revenge | drunk property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | revenge | yet | enough, sober property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | revenge not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the dawn | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | would · progressive | all good Mussulmen | prayer | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prayer=Initial_Location |
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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