The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
So saying, he disappeared, to the great joy of the company.
Who acts: genius · What happens: say, disappear, joy · To what, where: company · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (genius), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 disappeared | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 joy | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 joy | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joy | amod |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappeared | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joy | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | genius not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | genius | to the great joy of the company | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | joy | the company | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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