The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 100
As may be guessed, after such a scene it was long before I could close my eyes, and at the first sound which called the faithful to prayer, I put on my clothes and went to the mosque.
Who acts: I, expedition, first sound · What happens: guess, be, close, call, put, go · To what, where: eyes, prayer, clothes, mosque · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, expedition, first sound), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 guessed | mark |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 guessed | aux:pass |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 put | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 scene | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 scene | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scene | det |
| 9 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 long | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | cop |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 scene | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 close | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 close | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 close | aux |
| 16 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 long | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 close | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sound | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sound | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sound | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sound | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 sound | amod |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scene | conj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 called | nsubj |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sound | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 faithful | det |
| 28 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 called | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 prayer | case |
| 30 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 called | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 put | nsubj |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 clothes | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 put | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 put | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 mosque | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mosque | det |
| 41 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | may · passive | I not said here | after such scene and the first sound | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 2 | is | past | expedition | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | close | could | I | my eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | past | the first sound | prayer | faithful property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prayer=Recipient | |||
| 5 | put | past | I | my clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 6 | go | past | I not said here | the mosque | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mosque=Initial_Location |
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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