The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 17
Twenty years passed by, and my brother was still living with the Barmecide, looking after his house, and managing his affairs.
Who acts: brother · What happens: pass by, live, look, manage · To what, where: affairs
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 living | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 living | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 living | aux |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 living | advmod |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Barmecide | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Barmecide | det |
| 14 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 living | parataxis |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 managing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 managing | cc |
| 22 | managing | manage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 looking | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 managing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | past · progressive | my brother | still | with the Barmecide | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with barmecide=Location | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | after Barmecide's house | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | manage | gerund | Barmecide's affairs | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=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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