The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
The year soon passed away, and he was obliged to depart.
What happens: pass away, oblige, depart · To what, where: merchant
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: 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 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | advmod |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 obliged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 obliged | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 obliged | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 obliged | aux:pass |
| 10 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 depart | mark |
| 12 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | year | away, soon property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | merchant | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | depart | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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