The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 45
Scheih Ibrahim, still more enraged, then went out to fetch a stick.
Who acts: Scheih · What happens: go out, fetch · To what, where: stick
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 (Scheih), 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 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Scheih | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 enraged | punct |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 enraged | advmod |
| 6 | enraged | enraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Scheih | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scheih | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 went | advmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fetch | mark |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stick | det |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Scheih | then | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | Scheih not said here | a stick | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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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