The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 39
Rufus!" and hearing his voice, I jumped on to the counter.
Who acts: Rufus · What happens: hear, jump on · To what, where: voice
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 (Rufus), 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 | Rufus | Rufus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rufus | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rufus | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hearing | cc |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Rufus | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rufus | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 jumped | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 counter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 counter | det |
| 14 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | gerund | Rufus not said here | smell's voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | jump on in a quote | past | Rufus | to the counter result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to counter=Result |
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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