The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 64
The old man who was leading the hind told him the adventure of the merchant and the genius.
Who acts: old man · What happens: lead, tell, adventure · To what, where: hind, adventure, genius, merchant · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 leading | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leading | aux |
| 6 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hind | det |
| 8 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leading | obj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 adventure | det |
| 12 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adventure | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 genius | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 genius | det |
| 18 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 merchant | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · progressive | the old man | the hind | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the old man | the adventure of the merchant and the genius | genius | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic | |||
| 3 | adventure | the merchant and the genius | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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