The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 78
So saying, he took his leave and started next morning on his travels.
Who acts: patience · What happens: say, take, start, travel · To what, where: leave · 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 (patience), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morning | amod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 travels | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 travels | nmod:poss |
| 14 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | patience not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | patience | patience's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | patience not said here | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | travel | present | patience not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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