The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
While they were talking another old man came up, followed by two black dogs.
Who acts: genii · What happens: talk, come up, follow · To what, where: old man
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 (genii), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 talking | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talking | obj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 dogs | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dogs | nummod |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dogs | amod |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 followed | obl:agent |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | genii | another old man | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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