The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 4
He spent his days working in the garden, and his nights thinking of and sighing for his beloved wife.
Who acts: Prince, nights · What happens: spend, work, think, sigh
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 (Prince, nights), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | 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 days | nmod:poss |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spent | obj |
| 5 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spent | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 working | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thinking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thinking | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nights | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thinking | nsubj |
| 13 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spent | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 thinking | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sighing | cc |
| 16 | sighing | sigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thinking | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wife | amod |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sighing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Prince | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | Prince not said here | in the garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Prince's nights | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sigh | gerund | Prince's nights not said here | for Prince's beloved wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wife=Recipient |
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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