The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 33
I dressed his wounds and tended him carefully, and when a month had passed he was as well as ever.
Who acts: I, door · What happens: dress, tend, pass, be, wound · To what, where: wounds, door, month
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 (I, door), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dressed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tended | cc |
| 6 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tended | obj |
| 8 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 tended | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 passed | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 passed | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 passed | aux |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dressed | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 well | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 well | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 passed | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 well | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | I | door's wounds | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tend | past | I not said here | door | carefully property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | a month | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | is | past | door | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wound | door | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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