The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 38
Whilst these things were passing in the Ebony Island Prince Camaralzaman continued to find shelter in the gardeners cottage in the town of the idolaters.
Who acts: things, gardeners · What happens: pass, continue, find, cottage · To what, where: Camaralzaman, shelter, town
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 (things, gardeners), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 passing | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passing | aux |
| 5 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 continued | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Camaralzaman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Camaralzaman | det |
| 8 | Ebony | Ebony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Island | compound |
| 9 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Prince | compound |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Camaralzaman | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passing | obl |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 continued | xcomp |
| 15 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 cottage | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gardeners | det |
| 18 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cottage | nsubj |
| 19 | cottage | cottage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cottage | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 idolaters | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 idolaters | det |
| 25 | idolaters | idolater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 town | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | this things | the Camaralzaman Island Prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in camaralzaman=Location | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | shelter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cottage | present | the gardeners | the town of the idolaters | tree rules |
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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