The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 16
As she entered the middle region she heard the sound of great wings coming towards her, and shortly met one of the race of bad genii.
Who acts: Maimoune, great wings, bad genii · What happens: enter, hear, come, meet, race · To what, where: middle region, sound, one
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 (Maimoune, great wings, bad 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 region | amod |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 region | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wings | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wings | amod |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sound | nmod |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 wings | acl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 coming | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 met | cc |
| 19 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 20 met | advmod |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 met | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 race | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 race | det |
| 24 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 genii | case |
| 26 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 genii | amod |
| 27 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 race | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Maimoune | the middle region | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme region=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Maimoune | the sound of great wings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | great wings not said here | towards Maimoune | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | Maimoune not said here | one of the race of bad genii | shortly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | race | bad genii | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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