The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 12
Leaving the vizir at the foot of the stairs, the Caliph went up and knocked at the door of the saloon.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: leave, go up, knock · To what, where: vizir, foot
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph), 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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizir | det |
| 3 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foot | det |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stairs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stairs | det |
| 9 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foot | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leaving | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knocked | cc |
| 16 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knocked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 saloon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 saloon | det |
| 22 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the Caliph not said here | the vizir | the foot of the stairs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | go up | past | the Caliph | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | knock | participle | the Caliph not said here | at the door of the saloon | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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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