The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 24
He waited as he was told, but instead of the lady there entered a huge black slave with a sword in his hand.
Who acts: door, lady · What happens: wait, tell, enter · To what, where: door, huge black slave, hand · 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 (door, lady), 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 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 waited | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 12 lady | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instead | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lady | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 slave | det |
| 16 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slave | amod |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slave | amod |
| 18 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sword | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sword | det |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | door | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | the lady | a huge black slave | door's hand | with a sword | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slave=Destination |
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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