The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 82
He was worse next day, and by the morning of the third day was dangerously ill.
Who acts: gardener, third day · What happens: be · To what, where: worse next day
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 (gardener, third day), 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 | 5 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | cop |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 day | amod |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 morning | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 ill | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ill | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ill | cop |
| 16 | dangerously | dangerously | ADV | _ | 17 ill | advmod |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gardener | worse next day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the third day | dangerously, ill property | 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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