The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 104
In a short time he brought a very fat calf, which, although I did not know it, was my son.
Who acts: calf, fat calf · What happens: bring, not know, be · To what, where: short time, fat calf, steward, son
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 (calf, fat calf), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 calf | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 fat | advmod |
| 9 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 calf | amod |
| 10 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 know | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 calf | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 know | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | calf | a short time not said here | a fat calf | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument calf=Destination | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | a fat calf | steward | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | my son | time | tree rules |
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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