The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 13
Noureddin opened it, and the Caliph, standing on the threshold, said:
Who acts: Noureddin, Caliph · What happens: open, stand, say · To what, where: vizir, threshold · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Noureddin, 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Caliph | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 threshold | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 threshold | det |
| 12 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Caliph | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Noureddin | vizir | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the Caliph not said here | the threshold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on threshold=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Caliph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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