The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 94
The slaves having been sent away, Noureddin went to open it himself.
Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: send away, go, open · To what, where: slaves, knock
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 (Noureddin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slaves | det |
| 2 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sent | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 open | obj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 open | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | gerund · perfect · passive | the slaves | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Noureddin | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | knock | vizir obl:unmarked | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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