The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 50
Wandering along the banks of the Tigris, they skirted a garden enclosed by a high wall.
Who acts: neighbours · What happens: wonder, skirt, enclose · To what, where: garden
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 | Wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 skirted | advcl |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 4 banks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 banks | det |
| 4 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wandering | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tigris | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tigris | det |
| 7 | Tigris | Tigris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 banks | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wandering | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skirted | nsubj |
| 10 | skirted | skirt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skirted | obj |
| 13 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 garden | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 wall | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wall | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wall | amod |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enclosed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 skirted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | neighbours = neighbour not said here | along the banks of the Tigris | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | skirt | past | neighbours = neighbour | a garden | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | enclose | participle | a garden not said here | by a high wall | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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