The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 24
They met him riding home, bound him, and forced him to go with them on foot.
Who acts: men, vizir · What happens: meet, ride, bound, force, go · To what, where: vizir, foot
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 (men, vizir), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | obj |
| 4 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 met | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 riding | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bound | punct |
| 7 | bound | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 riding | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bound | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 forced | cc |
| 11 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forced | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forced | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | men = man | vizir | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | men = man not said here | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bound | infinitive | men = man not said here | vizir | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | force | past | men = man not said here | vizir | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vizir not said here | foot | with men = man | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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