The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
When my adopted son was about ten years old I was obliged to go on a journey.
Who acts: adopted son · What happens: adopt, be, oblige, go · To what, where: I, journey
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 (adopted son), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 old | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 old | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 old | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 ten | advmod |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 old | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 obliged | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 old | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 journey | det |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | my adopted son | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | a journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location |
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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