The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 9
He joined a caravan and set out.
Who acts: brother · What happens: join, set out · To what, where: caravan
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 (brother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 caravan | det |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joined | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 joined | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | brother | a caravan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | brother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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