The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 90
It was bright moonlight, so I easily managed to keep her in sight, till she entered a cemetery not far from the house.
Who acts: instant, I, Amina · What happens: be, manage, keep, enter · To what, where: bright moonlight, Amina, sight, cemetery
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 (instant, I, Amina), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2906): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moonlight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moonlight | cop |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moonlight | amod |
| 4 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 managed | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 managed | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 managed | nsubj |
| 8 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 9 managed | advmod |
| 9 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moonlight | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 managed | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entered | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 entered | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cemetery | det |
| 20 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 far | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 cemetery | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 far | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moonlight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | instant | bright moonlight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | I | easily property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | Amina | sight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 4 | enter | past | Amina | a cemetery | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cemetery=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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