The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 104
Camaralzaman warmly thanked the kind old man for offering him shelter, and was about to say more, but the gardener interrupted him with:
Who acts: Camaralzaman, kind old man, gardener · What happens: thank, offer, shelter, be, say, interrupt · To what, where: kind old man, man, more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camaralzaman, kind old man, gardener), 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 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 offering | mark |
| 9 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 offering | obj |
| 11 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 offering | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 about | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 about | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 about | cop |
| 15 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 about | xcomp |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 interrupted | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 interrupted | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gardener | det |
| 22 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 interrupted | nsubj |
| 23 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 interrupted | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 interrupted | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Camaralzaman | the kind old man | warmly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | gerund | the kind old man not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shelter not said to happen | infinitive | the kind old man not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Camaralzaman not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman not said here | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 6 | interrupt | past | the gardener | man | tree rules |
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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