The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 124
He began to walk in front of the fisherman, who followed him with some misgivings.
Who acts: genius, fisherman · What happens: begin, walk, follow · To what, where: front, genius
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, fisherman), 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 | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 walk | mark |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fisherman | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fisherman | det |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 misgivings | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 misgivings | det |
| 16 | misgivings | misgiving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | genius | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | genius not said here | front of the fisherman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the fisherman | genius | with some misgivings | vn chase-51.6 «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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