The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 87
Next day Giafar returned to Bagdad, bearing with him the king, Saouy, and Noureddin.
Who acts: Giafar · What happens: return, bear · To what, where: Bagdad, king
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 (Giafar), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Giafar | Giafar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Bagdad | case |
| 6 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bearing | punct |
| 8 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bearing | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Saouy | punct |
| 14 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Noureddin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Noureddin | cc |
| 17 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Saouy | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Giafar | Bagdad | day | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result | |||
| 2 | bear | gerund | Giafar not said here | the king | with Bagdad | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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