The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 43
As in passing I met this merchant and the old man with the hind, I stayed with them.
Who acts: I · What happens: meet, stay · To what, where: merchant
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 passing | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 passing | case |
| 3 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 merchant | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hind | det |
| 14 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stayed | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 stayed | nsubj |
| 17 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stayed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | I | this merchant and the old man with the hind | as passing | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | stay | past | I | with merchant | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
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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