The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 1
When he was thus employed he saw an enormous genius, white with rage, coming towards him, with a scimitar in his hand.
Who acts: he · What happens: employ, see, come · To what, where: he, enormous genius
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 employed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 employed | advmod |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 genius | det |
| 9 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 genius | amod |
| 10 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 white | punct |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 genius | amod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | conj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 coming | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scimitar | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 scimitar | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 scimitar | det |
| 22 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scimitar | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | he | thus property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | he | a enormous genius | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer genius=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | he not said here | towards him = he; with a scimitar in his hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=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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