The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 6
He was just about to draw them when he saw the Caliph approaching.
Who acts: fisherman, Caliph · What happens: be, see, approach · To what, where: Caliph
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 (fisherman, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 about | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 draw | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 draw | mark |
| 6 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 draw | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fisherman | about, draw property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | fisherman | the Caliph | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | the Caliph 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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