The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 8
She at once concluded that her husband had taken it and would shortly bring it back.
Who acts: wife · What happens: conclude, take, bring back · To what, where: husband, belt
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 (wife), 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 | 4 concluded | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 concluded | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 concluded | advmod |
| 4 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 concluded | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 13 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 14 bring | advmod |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 bring | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past | wife | once property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | wife's husband | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination | |||||
| 3 | bring back | would | belt | shortly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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