The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 27
The eunuch led the way through long passages, and Camaralzaman followed rapidly, in haste to reach the object of his desires.
Who acts: eunuch, Camaralzaman · What happens: lead, follow, reach, desire · To what, where: way, long passages, haste, object
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 (eunuch, Camaralzaman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eunuch | det |
| 2 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 passages | case |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 passages | amod |
| 8 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 11 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 13 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 12 followed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 haste | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 haste | case |
| 16 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 reach | mark |
| 18 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 haste | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 object | det |
| 20 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 desires | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 desires | nmod:poss |
| 23 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 object | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the eunuch | the way | long passages | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme through passage=Destination | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Camaralzaman | haste | rapidly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in haste=Location | |||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman not said here | the object of eunuch's desires | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | eunuch | nom desire «feeling 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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