The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
The genius, with his raised scimitar, waited till he had finished, but was not in the least touched.
Who acts: genius · What happens: raise, wait, finish, not touch
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 (genius), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 genius | det |
| 2 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scimitar | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 scimitar | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 scimitar | nmod:poss |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 scimitar | amod |
| 7 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 genius | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 genius | punct |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 finished | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 finished | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 finished | aux |
| 13 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 waited | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 touched | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 touched | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 touched | aux:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 touched | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 touched | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 least | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 touched | advmod |
| 21 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 waited | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | wait | past | the genius and genius's raised scimitar | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect | genius | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not touch | past · passive | the genius and genius's raised scimitar not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |
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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