The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 35
Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks and tears that Noureddin had driven them away by force and gone in.
Who acts: orders, force · What happens: rush, inform, drive away, go in · To what, where: mistress, shrieks
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, force), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bath | det |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 informing | punct |
| 8 | informing | inform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rushed | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 informing | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 shrieks | case |
| 12 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 informing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tears | cc |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shrieks | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 driven | aux |
| 18 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shrieks | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 driven | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 driven | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 force | case |
| 22 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 driven | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gone | cc |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 driven | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 gone | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | orders = order | then | to the bath result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bath=Result | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | gerund | orders = order not said here | orders's mistress | with shrieks and tears | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient | |||
| 3 | drive away | past · perfect · passive | force | shrieks and tears | away property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme they=Destination | |||
| 4 | go in | participle | force not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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