The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 42
So saying she led the way to the same house as before, and the door was opened by the same Greek slave.
Who acts: woman, same Greek slave · What happens: say, lead, open · To what, where: way, same house, 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 (woman, same Greek slave), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 led | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 before | case |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 opened | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 opened | aux:pass |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 led | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 slave | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 slave | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slave | amod |
| 22 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slave | amod |
| 23 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | woman | the way | the same house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | open | past · passive | the same Greek slave | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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