The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 4
After some thought, Ali Cogia hit upon a plan which seemed a safe one.
Who acts: Ali, plan · What happens: hit, seem · To what, where: safe one
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, plan), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 thought | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 thought | det |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 5 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | nsubj |
| 6 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ali | flat |
| 7 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 plan | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 plan | det |
| 10 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plan | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Ali | after some thought | upon a plan | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a plan | a safe one | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute |
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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