The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 94
There Haroun-al-Raschid studied them carefully.
Who acts: Haroun · What happens: study · To what, where: duties
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 (Haroun), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Haroun | expl |
| 2 | Haroun | Haroun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 studied | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 al | punct |
| 4 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Haroun | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Raschid | punct |
| 6 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Haroun | conj |
| 7 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 studied | obj |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 studied | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past | Haroun and Raschid | duties = duty | carefully property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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