The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 27
While there I heard a slave being offered for 4,000 pieces.
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, offer · To what, where: slave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 there | mark |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advcl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 slave | det |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 offered | aux:pass |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 10 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 pieces | nummod |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 offered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | offer | gerund · passive | a slave | for 4,000 pieces goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for piece=Goal |
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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