The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 99
Going down one street, the Caliph's attention was attracted by a noise, and looking through a door which opened into a court he perceived ten or twelve children playing in the moonlight.
Who acts: noise, door, officer, ten children, Caliph · What happens: go down, attract, look, open, perceive, play · To what, where: one street, attention, court, ten children, moonlight
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 (noise, door, officer, ten children), 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 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 attracted | advcl |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Going | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 street | nummod |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 attention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Caliph | case |
| 9 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attracted | aux:pass |
| 11 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 noise | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 noise | det |
| 14 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attracted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looking | cc |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 attracted | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 opened | nsubj |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 door | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 court | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 court | det |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 perceived | nsubj |
| 27 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 court | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 children | nummod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 twelve | cc |
| 30 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 ten | conj |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 perceived | obj |
| 32 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 children | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 moonlight | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moonlight | det |
| 35 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 playing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | gerund | a noise not said here | one street | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | attract | past · passive | a noise | the Caliph's attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a noise not said here | through a door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | a door | a court | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into court=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | perceive | past | officer | ten children | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | play | gerund | ten children not said here | the moonlight | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | attend | the Caliph | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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