The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 98
She sent for him and asked many questions as to his country, voyage, what passengers he had, and what his vessel was laden with.
Who acts: rest, passengers · What happens: send, ask, have, lade · To what, where: many questions, country, vessel
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 (rest, passengers), 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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 questions | amod |
| 8 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 12 country | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voyage | punct |
| 14 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 country | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 had | obj |
| 17 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 country | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 laden | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 laden | cc |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 laden | obj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 24 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 laden | aux:pass |
| 26 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sent | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 laden | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | rest | for captain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | rest not said here | many questions | as captain's country and voyage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | passengers | captain's country and voyage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lade | past · passive | captain's vessel | 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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