The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 54
Whilst he was thus waiting an old man leading a hind came towards him.
Who acts: merchant, old man · What happens: wait, lead, come · To what, where: hind
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, old man), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 waiting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 9 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hind | det |
| 11 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leading | obj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | merchant | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | a old man not said here | a hind | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a old man | towards merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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