The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 36
I went to the place where my shop was, opened it, and received from my fellow-merchants congratulations on my return.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: go, open, receive, congratulate, return · To what, where: place, shop, fellow merchants congratulations, return
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 (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 was | advmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shop | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 received | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 received | cc |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 congratulations | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 congratulations | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 congratulations | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fellow | punct |
| 20 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 congratulations | compound |
| 21 | congratulations | congratulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 received | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 return | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 return | nmod:poss |
| 24 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 congratulations | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | open | past | I not said here | shop | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | my fellow merchants congratulations on my return | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from congratulation=Source | |||||
| 4 | congratulate | my | my return | nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent on=place | |||||
| 5 | return | my | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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