The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 62
To-day I went to the baker's, to prove for myself the truth of the story, and persuaded the dog to follow me here.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, prove, persuade, follow · To what, where: baker, truth, dog, me
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), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 baker | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baker | det |
| 8 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 baker | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prove | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prove | mark |
| 12 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 myself | case |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 prove | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prove | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 truth | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 persuaded | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 persuaded | cc |
| 22 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dog | det |
| 24 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 persuaded | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 follow | mark |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 persuaded | advcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | obj |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 follow | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | the baker | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to baker=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | I not said here | the truth of the story | for myself | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||
| 3 | persuade | past | I not said here | the dog | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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