The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 69
So saying she retired to another room, where she hastily changed her masculine attire for that of a woman, and, after putting on the girdle she wore the day they parted, returned to Camaralzaman.
Who acts: Majesty, women · What happens: say, retire, change, put, wear, part · To what, where: masculine attire, girdle, day, Camaralzaman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, women), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 retired | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 retired | nsubj |
| 4 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 changed | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 12 changed | advmod |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 attire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 attire | amod |
| 15 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 changed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wore | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wore | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 putting | mark |
| 25 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 wore | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 girdle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girdle | det |
| 28 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 putting | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wore | nsubj |
| 30 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wore | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 parted | nsubj |
| 34 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 day | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 returned | punct |
| 36 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wore | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Camaralzaman | case |
| 38 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 returned | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Majesty not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | retire | past | Majesty | to another room | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | change | past | Majesty | Majesty's masculine attire | for that; hastily property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent attire=Theme for that=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | put | gerund | Majesty not said here | the girdle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on girdle=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wear | past | Majesty | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | part | past | women = woman | the day not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient | ||||
| 7 | return | past | Majesty not said here | Camaralzaman | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camaralzaman=Result |
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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