The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 23
Then rising hastily she left him, saying, "Stay where you are, I will come back in a moment."
Who acts: lady, you · What happens: rise, leave, say, stay, be, come back · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rising | advmod |
| 2 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 left | advcl |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 2 rising | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 left | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stay | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stay | punct |
| 11 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 are | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 are | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Stay | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Stay | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stay | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | lady not said here | then | hastily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | leave | past | lady | door | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | lady not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come back in a quote | future | lady | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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