The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 145
Our father died, leaving us each a thousand sequins.
Who acts: father · What happens: die, leave · To what, where: us
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 (father), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaving | punct |
| 5 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 died | advcl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leaving | obj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sequins | det |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thousand | det |
| 9 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sequins | nummod |
| 10 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaving | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Our father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Our father not said here | us | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme sequin=Attribute |
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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