The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 96
The friend, curious to hear what passed between them, hid himself behind the hangings, and heard the following words:
Who acts: friend · What happens: hear, pass, hide, follow · To what, where: vizir, hangings, following words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend), 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 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friend | amod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 curious | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | ccomp |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hid | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 hangings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hangings | det |
| 16 | hangings | hanging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hid | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 words | det |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 words | amod |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heard | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | to-infinitive | the friend not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | between friends = friend | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | the friend | vizir | the hangings | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind hanging=Location | |||
| 4 | hear | past | the following words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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