The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 52
At length he reached the place where he had first seen the genius, on the very day that he had appointed.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: reach, see, appoint · To what, where: place, length, genius, day
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 seen | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 genius | det |
| 13 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 day | advmod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 appointed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appointed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 appointed | aux |
| 22 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 day | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | merchant | the place | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | merchant | the genius | day | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer genius=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | appoint | past · perfect | merchant | the day not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=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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