The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 15
Ali Cogia heard the words, and lost no time in following the advice.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: hear, lose, follow · To what, where: words, advice
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lost | cc |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 following | mark |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lost | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 advice | det |
| 14 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 following | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ali | the words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Ali not said here | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | Ali not said here | the advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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