The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 42
At a short distance from the country house, a convent of dervishes was situated, and the superior, or scheih, was the doorkeeper's friend.
What happens: situate, be · To what, where: convent, friend
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 distance | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 distance | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 distance | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 convent | det |
| 11 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dervishes | case |
| 13 | dervishes | dervish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 convent | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 situated | aux:pass |
| 15 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 superior | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 superior | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 superior | det |
| 19 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 situated | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scheih | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 scheih | cc |
| 22 | scheih | scheih | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 superior | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 friend | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 friend | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 doorkeeper | det |
| 26 | doorkeeper | doorkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 doorkeeper | case |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | vocative |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | past · passive | a convent of dervishes | at a short distance from the country house | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at distance=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the doorkeeper's friend | 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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