The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 69
They soon saw in the distance a thick smoke, like a cloud of dust.
Who acts: others · What happens: see, cloud · To what, where: thick smoke, dust
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 (others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 smoke | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 smoke | amod |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cloud | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 cloud | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloud | det |
| 13 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dust | case |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cloud | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | others = other | a thick smoke | in the distance; like a cloud of dust; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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