The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 127
The fisherman did as he was told, hoping for a good catch, as he saw plenty of fish.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: do, tell, hope, see · To what, where: fisherman, plenty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoping | punct |
| 9 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 told | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 catch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 catch | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 catch | amod |
| 13 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 saw | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoping | conj |
| 18 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plenty | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the fisherman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | fisherman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | for a good catch | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for catch=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | fisherman | plenty of fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus |
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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