The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 54
I did what I was bid, and rejoined the dervish, whom I found trying to kindle a fire out of some dry wood.
Who acts: I, dervish · What happens: do, bid, rejoin, find, try, kindle · To what, where: I, dervish, fire, dry wood
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bid | aux:pass |
| 6 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rejoined | cc |
| 9 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dervish | det |
| 11 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rejoined | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 found | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dervish | acl:relcl |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 found | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 kindle | mark |
| 18 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 trying | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kindle | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 wood | det |
| 24 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wood | amod |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kindle | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rejoin | past | I not said here | the dervish | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | I | the dervish | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | gerund | the dervish not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | kindle not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dervish not said here | a fire | some dry wood | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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