The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 15
She made one of her women enter her litter, whilst she herself mounted on horseback and the march began.
Who acts: rest, women, march · What happens: make, enter, mount, begin · To what, where: one, litter, rest, horseback
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, women, march), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 enter | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 women | nmod:poss |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 enter | nsubj |
| 7 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 litter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enter | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mounted | punct |
| 11 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 14 mounted | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 she | conj |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 horseback | case |
| 16 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 march | det |
| 19 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mounted | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | rest | one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | rest's women | rest's litter | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme litter=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle · passive | rest | horseback | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on horseback=Destination | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the march | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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