The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 97
He then inquired the merchant's address, so that he might be summoned to attend also.
Who acts: officer, merchant · What happens: inquire, summon, attend, address · To what, where: address, officer
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 (officer, merchant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 inquired | advmod |
| 3 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 address | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 merchant | case |
| 7 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inquired | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 summoned | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 summoned | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 summoned | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 summoned | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 summoned | aux:pass |
| 14 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 inquired | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 attend | mark |
| 16 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 summoned | xcomp |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 attend | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | officer | the merchant's address | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent address=Recipient | |||
| 2 | summon | might · passive | officer | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | address | the merchant | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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