The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 76
I selected ten of the best camels, and we proceeded along the road, to rejoin those I had left behind.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: select, proceed, rejoin, leave behind · To what, where: ten, those
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, we), 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 selected | nsubj |
| 2 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 selected | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 camels | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camels | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 camels | amod |
| 7 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ten | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proceeded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 proceeded | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 proceeded | nsubj |
| 11 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 selected | parataxis |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proceeded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rejoin | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rejoin | mark |
| 17 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proceeded | conj |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 rejoin | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 left | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | past | I | ten of the best camels | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme | ||||
| 2 | proceed | past | we | along the road | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rejoin | to-infinitive | we not said here | those | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave behind | past · perfect | I | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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