The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 23
Three boys appeared, and the grand-vizir inquired which had represented the Cadi in their game of the previous evening.
Who acts: Three boys · What happens: appear, inquire, represent · To what, where: grand vizir, game
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three boys), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 boys | nummod |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 represented | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 represented | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizir | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vizir | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 9 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 vizir | acl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 represented | aux |
| 13 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cadi | det |
| 15 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 game | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 game | nmod:poss |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 evening | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evening | det |
| 21 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 evening | amod |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 game | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Three boys | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | the grand vizir not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | represent | past · perfect · passive | the grand vizir | dealers's game of the previous evening | 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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