The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 120
A few moments later they both re-entered the hall, disguised as foreign merchants, and passed through a secret door, out into the open country.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: re-enter, disguise, pass · To what, where: hall, secret door
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moments | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moments | amod |
| 3 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 re-entered | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 re-entered | nsubj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 re-entered | advmod |
| 7 | re-entered | re-enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 re-entered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 disguised | punct |
| 11 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 re-entered | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 merchants | case |
| 13 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 merchants | amod |
| 14 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 disguised | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 re-entered | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 20 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 door | amod |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 out | punct |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 passed | parataxis |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 26 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | amod |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 out | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 re-entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-enter | past | Caliph | the hall | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disguise | participle | Caliph not said here | as foreign merchants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | Caliph not said here | a secret door | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location |
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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