The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 7
When night came he washed himself, performed his devotions, and, having read some pages of the Koran, lay down on a couch, without putting out the light near him, and was soon asleep.
Who acts: night, Camaralzaman · What happens: come, wash, perform, read, lay down, put out · To what, where: Camaralzaman, devotions, pages, couch, light, Koran
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 (night, Camaralzaman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 washed | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 washed | nsubj |
| 5 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 washed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 performed | punct |
| 8 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 washed | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 devotions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | devotions | devotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 performed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 read | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 read | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 having | punct |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 read | aux |
| 15 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 washed | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 pages | det |
| 17 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 read | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Koran | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Koran | det |
| 20 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pages | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 read | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 lay | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 couch | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 couch | det |
| 26 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 putting | punct |
| 28 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 putting | mark |
| 29 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 lay | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 putting | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 light | det |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 putting | obj |
| 33 | near | near | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 putting | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 asleep | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 asleep | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 asleep | cop |
| 38 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 asleep | advmod |
| 39 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 washed | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wash | past | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | perform | past | Camaralzaman not said here | Camaralzaman's devotions | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devotion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read | gerund | Camaralzaman not said here | some pages of the Koran | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic | ||||
| 5 | lay down | present | Camaralzaman not said here | a couch | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on couch=Destination | |||
| 6 | put out | gerund | Camaralzaman not said here | the light | near Camaralzaman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme near he=Destination | |||
| 7 | is | past | Camaralzaman not said here | asleep, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | devote | Camaralzaman | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | page | the Koran | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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