The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 43
Again my brother was left in the hall, and the pretended son appeared under the form of the black slave. "
Who acts: pretended son · What happens: leave, pretend, appear, form · To what, where: brother, hall, form, black slave
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 (pretended son), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 form | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 form | det |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 slave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 slave | det |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 slave | amod |
| 21 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 form | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | my brother | the hall | again | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hall=Location | |||
| 2 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | appear | past | the pretended son | the form of the black slave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under form=Location | ||||
| 4 | form | the black slave | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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