The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 68
He had been in many countries and learnt many things, including astrology.
Who acts: son · What happens: have, be, learn · To what, where: many countries, many things
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 (son), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 countries | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 countries | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 countries | amod |
| 6 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 learnt | cc |
| 8 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learnt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 astrology | punct |
| 12 | including | including | ADP | _ | 13 astrology | case |
| 13 | astrology | astrology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 things | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | many countries | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | son not said here | many things | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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