The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 12
At length they reached the capital of China, where they spent three days in a suitable lodging to recover from their fatigues.
Who acts: roads · What happens: reach, spend, recover, fatigue · To what, where: capital, length, suitable lodging, fatigues
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 (roads), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 capital | det |
| 6 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 capital | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spent | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 spent | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spent | nsubj |
| 12 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spent | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lodging | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lodging | det |
| 17 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lodging | amod |
| 18 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spent | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 recover | mark |
| 20 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spent | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 fatigues | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fatigues | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recover | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | roads = road | the capital of China | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent capital=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | spend | past | roads = road | a suitable lodging | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | recover | to-infinitive | roads = road not said here | roads's fatigues | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fatigue=Source | ||||
| 4 | fatigue | roads = road | nom fatigue «state transitive»: 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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