The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
When I went home, I saw two black dogs who came to meet me with sorrowful faces.
Who acts: I, two black dogs · What happens: go, see, come, meet · To what, where: two black dogs, me
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, two black dogs), 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:pg128:233): 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dogs | nummod |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dogs | amod |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 faces | case |
| 17 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faces | amod |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | two black dogs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | two black dogs | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | two black dogs not said here | me | with sorrowful faces | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme with face=Instrument |
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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