The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
He greeted them, and asked what they were doing in this place.
Who acts: genius, genii · What happens: greet, ask, do · To what, where: genii, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (genius, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 greeted | nsubj |
| 2 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 greeted | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 greeted | conj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 doing | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 doing | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 doing | aux |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | genius | genii | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | genius not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | genii | this place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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