The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 27
"I had of course no choice but to obey, and travelled about for several years until I heard of the death of the Caliph, when I hastily returned to Bagdad, only to find that all my brothers were dead.
Who acts: barber, brothers, Caliph · What happens: have, obey, travel, hear, return, find · To what, where: choice, Bagdad
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 (barber, brothers, Caliph), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 choice | det |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 obey | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 obey | mark |
| 10 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 travelled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 travelled | cc |
| 13 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 travelled | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 years | amod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 travelled | obl |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 heard | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 travelled | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 death | det |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Caliph | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Caliph | det |
| 26 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 death | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 returned | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 returned | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 returned | nsubj |
| 30 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 31 returned | advmod |
| 31 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Bagdad | case |
| 33 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 returned | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 find | punct |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 find | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 find | mark |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 dead | mark |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 brothers | det:predet |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 41 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 dead | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 dead | cop |
| 43 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 find | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | barber | no choice | of course | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | |||
| 2 | obey in a quote | to-infinitive | barber not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | past | barber not said here | year | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear in a quote | past | barber | of the death of the Caliph | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | return in a quote | past | barber | Bagdad | hastily property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result | |||
| 6 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | barber not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | my brothers | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | die in a quote | the Caliph | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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