The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 7
And as he spoke he tried to loosen the grasp of the blind beggar.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: speak, try, loosen, grasp · To what, where: grasp, blind beggar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Caliph), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 loosen | mark |
| 8 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grasp | det |
| 10 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loosen | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 beggar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beggar | det |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beggar | amod |
| 14 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grasp | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Caliph | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | past | Caliph | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | loosen not said to happen | to-infinitive | Caliph not said here | the grasp of the blind beggar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grasp=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grasp | the blind beggar | nom grasp «cognition 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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