The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 55
In an instant the man had vaulted on his back, and inquired where the monarch wished to send him.
Who acts: man, monarch · What happens: vault, inquire, wish, send · To what, where: instant, monarch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, monarch), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vaulted | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vaulted | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vaulted | aux |
| 7 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vaulted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inquired | cc |
| 13 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vaulted | conj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 wished | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monarch | det |
| 16 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 inquired | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 send | mark |
| 19 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 send | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vaulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vault | past · perfect | the man | a instant | on man's back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | the monarch | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | the monarch not said here | monarch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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