The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 12
Then he continued his road, followed by the blessing of the blind man.
Who acts: oath · What happens: continue, follow, bless · To what, where: road, blind man
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oath), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 continued | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 road | nmod:poss |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 road | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 blessing | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blessing | det |
| 10 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blessing | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | oath | oath's road | then | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | oath's road not said here | by the blessing of the blind man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by blessing=Location | ||||
| 3 | bless | the blind man | nom blessing «act transitive»: of=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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