The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 86
When I returned I inquired after my slave and the child. "
Who acts: I · What happens: return, inquire
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 (I), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inquired | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 inquired | nsubj |
| 5 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 slave | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 slave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inquired | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 child | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slave | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 child | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | I | after my slave and the child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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