The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 19
The vizir bowed to the ground and hastened to leave the room and tower.
What happens: bow, hasten, leave · To what, where: vizir, room
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vizir | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hastened | cc |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bowed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hastened | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tower | cc |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vizir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | participle | the vizir not said here | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | the room and tower | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
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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