The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 31
However, we wished to keep him with us, and share our feast, and we remained at table till the hour of afternoon prayer.
Who acts: we · What happens: wish, keep, share, remain · To what, where: barber, feast, table
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 (we), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 wished | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 share | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 share | cc |
| 12 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | advcl |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feast | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 share | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remained | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 table | case |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 21 | till | till | ADP | _ | 23 hour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hour | det |
| 23 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 prayer | case |
| 25 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 prayer | compound |
| 26 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hour | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | we | however property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | barber | with us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | share | present | we not said here | our feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | we | table | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=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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