The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 87
Till near midnight they continued drinking, laughing, and singing together.
Who acts: cups · What happens: continue, drink, laugh, sing
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 (cups), 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 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 continued | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughing | punct |
| 8 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 drinking | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 singing | cc |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 drinking | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 singing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | cups = cup | midnight | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | cups = cup not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | cups = cup not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | cups = cup not said here | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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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