The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 44
The usher and the tailor soon returned, bringing with them an old man who must have been at least ninety years of age. "
Who acts: usher · What happens: return, bring, have, be · To what, where: old man, ninety years
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 (usher), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 usher | det |
| 2 | usher | usher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tailor | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tailor | det |
| 5 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 usher | conj |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 returned | advmod |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bringing | punct |
| 9 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bringing | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bringing | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 who | xcomp |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 years | cop |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 least | case |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 ninety | nmod |
| 21 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 age | case |
| 24 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the usher and the tailor | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the usher and the tailor not said here | a old man | with homes = home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | infinitive | the usher and the tailor not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | participle | ninety years | of age | tree rules |
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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