The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 52
Here," said Noureddin, "let us pass the night," and reclining on the sofas they soon fell asleep.
Who acts: Noureddin, us, neighbours · What happens: say, let, pass, recline, fall · To what, where: us, sofas · 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 (Noureddin, us, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pass | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pass | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reclining | cc |
| 16 | reclining | recline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sofas | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sofas | det |
| 19 | sofas | sofa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reclining | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | advmod |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sofas | acl:relcl |
| 23 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Noureddin | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | us not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recline in a quote | gerund | Noureddin not said here | the sofas | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Location | ||||
| 5 | fall in a quote | past | neighbours = neighbour | the sofas not said here | asleep, soon property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sofa=Result |
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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