The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 79
He had only gone a few paces, and I called after him.
Who acts: brother, I · What happens: go, call · To what, where: few paces · 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 (brother, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 paces | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paces | amod |
| 7 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | brother | a few paces | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | I | after brother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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