The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 93
There was nothing left for him but to hire the garden as the old man had done, and to live on in the cottage.
Who acts: nothing, old man · What happens: be, leave, hire, do, live · To what, where: garden, cottage
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 (nothing, old man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hire | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hire | mark |
| 9 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 left | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hire | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 hire | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 live | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 cottage | case |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cottage | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cottage | det |
| 25 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 live | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | for Prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | hire | to-infinitive | the garden | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | the old man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | the cottage | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cottage=Location |
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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