The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 69
My brother did not wait to be told twice, and hurried out into the streets, where he soon collected ten men.
Who acts: brother, Alnaschar · What happens: not wait, tell, hurry out, collect · To what, where: streets, ten men · 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 (brother, Alnaschar), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 told | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wait | advcl |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 told | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurried | cc |
| 12 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hurried | compound:prt |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 streets | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 streets | det |
| 16 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hurried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 collected | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 collected | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 collected | nsubj |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 collected | advmod |
| 21 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 streets | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 men | nummod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 collected | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | My brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | My brother not said here | twice property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | hurry out | participle | My brother not said here | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into street=Destination | ||||
| 4 | collect | past | Alnaschar | ten men | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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