The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 71
The merchant and the three old men began to weep and groan.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: begin, weep, groan
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), 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 | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 merchant | conj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 weep | mark |
| 10 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 groan | cc |
| 12 | groan | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 weep | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the merchant and the three old men | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | the merchant and the three old men not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | groan | infinitive | the merchant and the three old men not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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