The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 30
"When the barber," he continued, "had finished his tale, we came to the conclusion that the young man had been right, when he had accused him of being a great chatter-box.
Who acts: barber, we, young man, man · What happens: continue, finish, come, be, accuse, tell · To what, where: tale, conclusion, barber · Speech: someone speaks here
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, we, young man, man), 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 | _ | 4 barber | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 barber | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 barber | det |
| 4 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 barber | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 finished | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 finished | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 finished | aux |
| 12 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 continued | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tale | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finished | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 conclusion | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 conclusion | det |
| 20 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 right | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 right | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 right | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 right | cop |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 accused | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 accused | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 accused | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 accused | aux |
| 32 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 right | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 accused | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 box | case |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 box | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 box | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 box | amod |
| 38 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 box | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 chatter | punct |
| 40 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 accused | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | barber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | finish in a quote | past · perfect | barber not said here | barber's tale | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | we | the conclusion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past · perfect | the young man | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | accuse in a quote | past · perfect | man | barber | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | gerund | of a great chatter box | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | tell in a quote | barber | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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