The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 112
The two genii hastened to obey, and Maimoune returned to her well.
Who acts: two genii · What happens: hasten, obey, return · To what, where: two genii, Maimoune
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two genii), 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 | 3 genii | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 genii | nummod |
| 3 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 genii | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 obey | mark |
| 6 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hastened | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Maimoune | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Maimoune | cc |
| 9 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 genii | nmod |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | obl |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 returned | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the two genii Maimoune not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | obey | to-infinitive | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | return | past | the two genii Maimoune | Maimoune | well property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result |
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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