The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 104
As soon as I appeared, Amina ordered dinner to be served, and we sat down together.
Who acts: I, Amina, we · What happens: appear, order, serve, sit down · To what, where: dinner
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, Amina, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 appeared | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 7 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | advcl |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 served | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 served | aux:pass |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 sat | advmod |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 sat | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | I | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Amina | dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive · passive | Amina not said here | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute» | |||||
| 4 | sit down | past | we | down, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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