The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 52
When we were exactly between these mountains the dervish stopped.
Who acts: we, dervish · What happens: be, stop
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 (we, dervish), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 mountains | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mountains | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mountains | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 mountains | advmod |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 mountains | det |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stopped | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dervish | det |
| 9 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | we | between this mountains; exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the dervish | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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