The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 81
At length, having gazed long without being able to come to a decision, he said
Who acts: length, Caschcasch · What happens: have, gaze, be, come, say · To what, where: decision, length · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (length, Caschcasch), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 length | acl |
| 5 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 gazed | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 able | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gazed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 decision | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 decision | det |
| 14 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | length not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gaze | participle | length not said here | long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | length not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | length not said here | a decision | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to decision=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Caschcasch | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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