The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 114
Bowing low, he waited, as was his duty, till his master spoke, but Haroun-al-Raschid merely turned his head and looked at him, and sank back into his former weary posture.
Who acts: Giafar, master, Haroun · What happens: bow, wait, be, speak, turn, look · To what, where: head, former weary posture · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giafar, master, Haroun), 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 | Bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 waited | advcl |
| 2 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Bowing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bowing | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 duty | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 duty | case |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 duty | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 duty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turned | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 turned | cc |
| 18 | Haroun | Haroun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 al | punct |
| 20 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Haroun | flat |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Raschid | punct |
| 22 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Haroun | conj |
| 23 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 24 turned | advmod |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looked | cc |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turned | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sank | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sank | cc |
| 33 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 sank | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 posture | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 posture | nmod:poss |
| 37 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 posture | amod |
| 38 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 posture | amod |
| 39 | posture | posture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sank | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | gerund | Giafar not said here | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Giafar | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Giafar not said here | as Giafar's duty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | Giafar's master | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | Haroun and Raschid | Giafar's head | merely property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 6 | look | past | Haroun and Raschid not said here | at Giafar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sink back | past | Giafar not said here | Giafar's former weary posture | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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