The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 122
I went immediately with the steward to speak with his daughter myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 steward | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steward | det |
| 6 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 speak | mark |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speak | obl |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | with the steward; immediately property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with steward=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | with genius's daughter myself | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with daughter=Co-Agent |
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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