The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 69
Scheih Ibrahim spread the table in front of a sofa, and all three ate together.
Who acts: Scheih, three · What happens: spread, eat · To what, where: table, front
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 (Scheih, three), 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 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Scheih | flat |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sofa | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sofa | det |
| 10 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ate | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ate | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 ate | nsubj |
| 15 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 ate | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | Scheih | the table | front of a sofa | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 2 | eat | past | all three | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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