The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 128
He was very learned in all languages, and knew a great deal about herbs and medicines.
What happens: learn, know · To what, where: king, languages, great deal
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 learned | advmod |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 languages | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 languages | det |
| 7 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deal | amod |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 herbs | case |
| 15 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deal | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 medicines | cc |
| 17 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 herbs | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · passive | king | all languages | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | past | a great deal | about herbs and medicines | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |
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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