The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 7
He sang me several songs, and then I invited him to finish the evening at my house.
Who acts: hunchback, I · What happens: sing, invite, finish · To what, where: several songs, me, hunchback, house
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 (hunchback, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | obj |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 songs | amod |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sang | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 invited | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 invited | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 invited | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 invited | nsubj |
| 10 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 invited | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 finish | mark |
| 13 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 invited | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finish | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finish | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | hunchback | several songs | me | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary song=Theme | |||
| 2 | invite | past | I | hunchback | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | finish | to-infinitive | I not said here | my house | evening | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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