The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 77
At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission.
Who acts: Scheih · What happens: set off, execute, sight · To what, where: sight, commission, gold
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sight | case |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sight | punct |
| 7 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj |
| 8 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Scheih | flat |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 set | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 execute | mark |
| 14 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 commission | det |
| 16 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 execute | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | Scheih | sight of the gold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | execute | to-infinitive | Scheih not said here | the commission | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sight | the gold | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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