The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 79
More than a year after these events the minister took a chill, leaving the bath while still heated to go out on important business.
Who acts: minister · What happens: take, leave, heat, go out · To what, where: chill, bath, important business
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 (minister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2339): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 year | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 events | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 events | det |
| 7 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 year | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chill | det |
| 12 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 took | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bath | det |
| 16 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 heated | mark |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 heated | advmod |
| 19 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 leaving | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leaving | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 business | case |
| 24 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 business | amod |
| 25 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the minister | a chill | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the minister not said here | the bath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | heat | participle | the minister not said here | still | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go out | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | important business | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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