The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 83
Noureddin, seeing him, called to him to come in and keep them company.
Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: see, call, come in, keep · To what, where: Noureddin, Ibrahim, voices · 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2433): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 called | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seeing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 called | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Noureddin not said here | Noureddin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Noureddin | Ibrahim | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | Noureddin not said here | voices = voice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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