The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 23
When I had finished, I tried to go back into the shop, but this he would not allow, and stood so firmly at the entrance with a stout stick, that I was forced to give it up, and seek some other home.
Who acts: I, this · What happens: finish, try, go back, not allow, stand, force · To what, where: shop, entrance, I, stick, other home
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tried | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 shop | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shop | det |
| 13 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allow | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 allow | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 allow | nsubj:outer |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allow | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 allow | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 allow | advmod |
| 20 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stood | cc |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tried | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 firmly | advmod |
| 25 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 23 stood | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 entrance | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 entrance | det |
| 28 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 stick | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 stick | det |
| 31 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stick | amod |
| 32 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 forced | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 forced | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 forced | aux:pass |
| 37 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stood | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 give | mark |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 forced | xcomp |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 give | obj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 give | compound:prt |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 seek | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 seek | cc |
| 44 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 forced | conj |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 home | det |
| 46 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 home | amod |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seek | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | try | past | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the shop | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not allow | would | this | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | I not said here | the entrance | with a stout stick; firmly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location | |||
| 6 | force | past · passive | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | give up | to-infinitive | I not said here | stick | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||||
| 8 | seek | infinitive | some other home | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
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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