The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 95
Knowing this custom, Ali Cogia followed the Caliph into the public hall of the palace, and waited the result.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: know, follow, wait · To what, where: custom, Caliph, public hall, result
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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 followed | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 custom | det |
| 3 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowing | punct |
| 5 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj |
| 6 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ali | flat |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 12 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hall | amod |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hall | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waited | cc |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 result | det |
| 21 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waited | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Ali not said here | this custom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer custom=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | Ali | the Caliph | the public hall of the palace | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caliph=Theme into hall=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | wait | past | Ali not said here | the result | tree rules |
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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