The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 147
A short time after we had opened our shops, my eldest brother, one of these two dogs, resolved to travel in foreign countries for the sake of merchandise.
Who acts: short time · What happens: open, resolve, travel · To what, where: we, two dogs, foreign countries
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 (short time), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 opened | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | aux |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shops | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shops | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 shops | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dogs | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 dogs | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 dogs | nummod |
| 19 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 resolved | punct |
| 21 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dogs | acl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 travel | mark |
| 23 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 resolved | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 countries | case |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 countries | amod |
| 26 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 travel | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sake | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sake | det |
| 29 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 travel | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 merchandise | case |
| 31 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sake | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · perfect · passive | a short time not said here | we | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shop=Destination | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | this two dogs not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | foreign countries | for the sake of merchandise | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory |
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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