The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 39
On waking next morning she first turned from one side to another and then, finding herself alone, called loudly for her women.
Who acts: Schahzaman · What happens: wake, turn, find, call · To what, where: one side, Schahzaman · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Schahzaman), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 waking | mark |
| 2 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | advcl |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waking | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 turned | advmod |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 side | nummod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 turned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finding | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 finding | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finding | punct |
| 16 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | advcl |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 finding | obj |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 finding | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 finding | conj |
| 21 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 20 called | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 women | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 women | nmod:poss |
| 24 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | gerund | Schahzaman not said here | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Schahzaman | one side | to another result; first property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from side=Initial_State to another=Result | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | Schahzaman not said here | Schahzaman | then | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | ||
| 4 | call | participle | Schahzaman not said here | for Schahzaman's women; loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for woman=Recipient |
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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