The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 29
Among others was a prating barber, whose tale of one of his brothers follows.
Who acts: tale · What happens: prate, be, follow · To what, where: prating barber
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 2 others | case |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 barber | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 barber | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 barber | det |
| 5 | prating | prate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 barber | amod |
| 6 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tale | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 tale | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follows | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tale | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 barber | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 barber | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prate | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a prating barber | among others | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | tale of one of tale's brothers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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