The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 110
For," added he, "if I tried to rejoin the princess, how should I find her after eleven days' separation.
Who acts: Camaralzaman, I, eleven days · What happens: add, try, rejoin, find, separate · To what, where: Prince, princess
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, I, eleven days), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 added | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tried | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 added | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 tried | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rejoin | mark |
| 12 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rejoin | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 find | advmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rejoin | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 separation | case |
| 22 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 days | nummod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 separation | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 days | case |
| 25 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Camaralzaman not said here | Prince | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | past | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rejoin not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the princess | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | should | I | princess | after eleven days's separation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 5 | separate | eleven days | nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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