The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 20
They all bowed themselves low before the throne and then the Caliph bade them rise, and ask the blind man his name.
Who acts: foam, man · What happens: bow, rise, ask, name · To what, where: foam, Caliph bade, name, 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 (foam, man), 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 | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bowed | obj |
| 5 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 throne | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 throne | det |
| 8 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bade | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 bade | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bade | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bade | compound |
| 13 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throne | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rise | nsubj |
| 15 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bade | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ask | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bowed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | foam | foam | before the throne and the Caliph bade | low property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||
| 2 | rise | present | foam | the Caliph bade not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bade=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | foam not said here | man's name | the blind man | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | man | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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