The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 98
Much cast down, he entered the town, which was built near the sea and had a fine harbour.
Who acts: you, strength · What happens: cast down, enter, build, have · To what, where: town, sea, fine harbour
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 (you, strength), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 cast | advmod |
| 2 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 cast | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cast | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 built | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 built | aux:pass |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 town | acl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 harbour | det |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 harbour | amod |
| 20 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast down | imperative | you not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | strength | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination | ||||
| 3 | build | past · passive | the town | the sea | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | have | past | strength not said here | a fine harbour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=Patient |
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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