The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 81
As he spoke he held out his hand to the hunchback to help him up, but the hunchback never moved. "
Who acts: policeman, hunchback · What happens: speak, hold out, help up, not move · To what, where: hand, policeman · 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 (policeman, hunchback), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 moved | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hunchback | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hunchback | det |
| 11 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 help | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 moved | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hunchback | det |
| 19 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moved | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 moved | advmod |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | policeman | policeman's hand | to the hunchback | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold out | past | policeman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help up | to-infinitive | policeman not said here | policeman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not move | past | the hunchback | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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