The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 43
As he walked up and down he was suddenly disturbed in his reverie by the noise two large birds were making in a tree.
Who acts: friend, noise, two large birds · What happens: walk, disturb, make · To what, where: friend, reverie, noise, tree
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 (friend, noise, two large birds), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disturbed | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 down | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 up | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 disturbed | advmod |
| 10 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 reverie | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 reverie | nmod:poss |
| 13 | reverie | reverie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disturbed | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 noise | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 noise | det |
| 16 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disturbed | obl |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 birds | nummod |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 birds | amod |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 making | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 making | aux |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 noise | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | friend | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disturb | past · passive | the noise | friend | friend's reverie | suddenly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | two large birds | the noise not said here | a tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/43/