The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 89
Camaralzaman was obliged to stay and pay him the last offices, so having dug a grave in the garden he wrapped the kind old man up and buried him.
Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: oblige, stay, pay, dig, wrap, bury · To what, where: Camaralzaman, grave, garden, kind old man, man
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 (Camaralzaman), 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 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pay | cc |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pay | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 offices | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 offices | amod |
| 11 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dug | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 dug | advmod |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 dug | aux |
| 15 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 obliged | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 grave | det |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dug | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dug | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wrapped | nsubj |
| 22 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dug | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrapped | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 wrapped | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 buried | cc |
| 29 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrapped | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 buried | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Camaralzaman | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pay | infinitive | Camaralzaman | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient office=Asset | |||||
| 4 | dig | gerund · perfect | a grave | the garden | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grave=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 5 | wrap | past | Camaralzaman | the kind old man | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Destination | ||||
| 6 | bury | past | Camaralzaman not said here | man | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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