The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 89
One day he was passing a splendid mansion, with a crowd of servants lounging in the courtyard.
Who acts: Schacabac, servants · What happens: pass, lounge · To what, where: splendid mansion, courtyard
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 (Schacabac, servants), 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 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passing | aux |
| 5 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mansion | det |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mansion | amod |
| 8 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crowd | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passing | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 servants | case |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crowd | nmod |
| 15 | lounging | lounge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 servants | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courtyard | det |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lounging | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | Schacabac | a splendid mansion | day | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mansion=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lounge | gerund | servants not said here | the courtyard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Location |
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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