The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
The merchant, having recovered from his fright, mounted his horse and went on his road.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: have, recover, mount, go, fright · To what, where: fright, horse, road
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 (merchant), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 merchant | acl |
| 5 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 fright | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fright | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchant | punct |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mounted | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 road | nmod:poss |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the merchant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recover | participle | the merchant not said here | merchant's fright | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fright=Source | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | the merchant | merchant's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the merchant not said here | merchant's road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 5 | fright | merchant | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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