The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 121
Here they turned towards the Euphrates, and crossing the river in a small boat, walked through that part of the town which lay along the further bank, without seeing anything to call for their interference.
Who acts: Caliph, town · What happens: turn, cross, walk, lie, see, call · To what, where: Euphrates, river, part, further bank, anything · 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 (Caliph, town), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 Euphrates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Euphrates | det |
| 6 | Euphrates | Euphrate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crossing | cc |
| 9 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crossing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boat | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boat | amod |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crossing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walked | punct |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 part | det |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walked | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 town | acl:relcl |
| 26 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bank | det |
| 28 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bank | amod |
| 29 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seeing | punct |
| 31 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 32 seeing | mark |
| 32 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 walked | advcl |
| 33 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 seeing | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 call | mark |
| 35 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 seeing | advcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 interference | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 interference | nmod:poss |
| 38 | interference | interference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 call | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Caliph | the Euphrates; here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards euphrate=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cross | gerund | Caliph not said here | the river | in a small boat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Patient in boat=Topic | |||
| 3 | walk | past | Caliph not said here | that part of the town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through part=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | the town | the further bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along bank=Location | ||||
| 5 | see | gerund | Caliph not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | call | to-infinitive | Caliph not said here | for Caliph's interference | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for interference=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | interfere | Caliph | nom interference «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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