The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 75
He then called loudly for help, beating the fallen man all the while.
Who acts: revenge · What happens: call, beat, fall · To what, where: fallen man · 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 (revenge), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 help | case |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beating | punct |
| 8 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 called | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beating | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 while | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beating | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | revenge | then | for help; loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||
| 2 | beat | gerund | revenge not said here | the fallen man | while | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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