The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 36
One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old enemy prowling to see if she could find anyone to decoy.
Who acts: door, sabre · What happens: hobble, meet, prowl, see, find, decoy · To what, where: streets, old enemy, anyone
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, sabre), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 hobbling | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hobbling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hobbling | aux |
| 6 | hobbling | hobble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 met | advcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 streets | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 streets | det |
| 9 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hobbling | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 enemy | amod |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 15 | prowling | prowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 met | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prowling | xcomp |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 decoy | mark |
| 24 | decoy | decoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 anyone | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hobble | past · progressive | door | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | door | door's old enemy | morning | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | prowl | gerund | door not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | door not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | sabre | anyone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Topic | ||||
| 6 | decoy | to-infinitive | sabre not said here | anyone not said here | tree rules |
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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