The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 68
The following day a grand dinner was served to us but as my wife did not appear, I ordered a servant to call her.
Who acts: wife, I, servant · What happens: follow, serve, not appear, order, call · To what, where: grand dinner, us, servant, behaviour · 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 (wife, I, servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 served | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dinner | det |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dinner | amod |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 served | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 served | aux:pass |
| 8 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 served | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 ordered | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 appear | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appear | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appear | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 appear | advmod |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ordered | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ordered | nsubj |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 served | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 call | mark |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ordered | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 call | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | serve | past · passive | a grand dinner | us | day | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not appear | past · do-support | my wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | order | past | I | a servant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | a servant not said here | behaviour | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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