The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 142
With this agreement the second old man began in this way.
Who acts: second old man · What happens: begin · To what, where: way
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 (second old man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 agreement | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreement | det |
| 3 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the second old man | this way | with this agreement | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with agreement=Subeventuality |
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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