The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 7
By daybreak our travellers found themselves where four cross roads met in the middle of the forest.
Who acts: travellers, four cross roads · What happens: find, meet · To what, where: travellers, middle
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 (travellers, four cross 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 daybreak | case |
| 2 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 travellers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 met | advmod |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 roads | nummod |
| 9 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roads | compound |
| 10 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | our travellers | travellers = traveller | by daybreak | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 2 | meet | past | four cross roads | the middle of the forest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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