The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 134
Saying these words, he struck his foot against the ground, which opened, and when he had disappeared, it closed immediately.
Who acts: harm, ground, foot · What happens: say, strike, open, disappear, close · To what, where: words, foot · 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 (harm, ground, foot), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 struck | advcl |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Saying | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saying | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obj |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ground | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disappeared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 disappeared | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 disappeared | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 disappeared | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 disappeared | aux |
| 20 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 struck | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 closed | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 closed | nsubj |
| 23 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | conj |
| 24 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 23 closed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | harm not said here | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | harm | harm's foot | against the ground | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Instrument against ground=Patient | |||
| 3 | open | past | the ground | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disappear | past · perfect | harm | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | close | past | foot | immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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