The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 49
Never having been in Bagdad before, they did not know where to seek a lodging.
Who acts: neighbours · What happens: not have, not know, seek · To what, where: lodging · 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 (neighbours), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 having | advmod |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 having | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Bagdad | case |
| 5 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 been | obl |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 been | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 having | advcl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 seek | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lodging | det |
| 16 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | neighbours = neighbour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | a lodging | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=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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