The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 3
As he passed through the town he heard people talking everywhere about a marvellous palace.
Who acts: magician, people · What happens: pass, hear, talk · To what, where: town, people
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 (magician, people), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 town | acl:relcl |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | obj |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 people | acl |
| 11 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 talking | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | magician | the town | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | magician | people | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | people not said here | about a marvellous palace; everywhere property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about palace=Topic |
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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