The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 35
While eating some fish, a bone got into his throat, and in spite of all we could do, he died shortly.
Who acts: bone, we · What happens: eat, get, do, die · To what, where: fish, throat
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 (bone, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 eating | mark |
| 2 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 got | advcl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eating | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 eating | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bone | det |
| 7 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 throat | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 throat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 died | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 died | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 spite | case |
| 15 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 died | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 spite | nmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spite | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 died | nsubj |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 24 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 23 died | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | a bone not said here | some fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | a bone | bone's throat | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into throat=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | could | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | past | bone | in spite of all; shortly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Attribute |
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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