The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 15
But they came to me repeatedly, and after having held out for five years I at last gave way.
Who acts: journey, I · What happens: come, have, hold out, give · To what, where: me, way
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: who acts (journey, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | repeatedly | repeatedly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 having | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 gave | advcl |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 having | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 held | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 held | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 gave | mark |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | journey | me | repeatedly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold out | participle | I not said here | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | I | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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