The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 87
He continued his pursuit till the bird suddenly swallowed the stone and took a longer flight than before.
Who acts: Prince, bird · What happens: continue, swallow, take, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, stone, longer flight
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 (Prince, bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pursuit | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 swallowed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swallowed | nsubj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 swallowed | advmod |
| 9 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swallowed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flight | det |
| 15 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 flight | amod |
| 16 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Prince | Prince's pursuit | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pursuit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | the bird | the stone | suddenly property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | Prince not said here | a longer flight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pursue | Prince | nom pursuit «act 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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