The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 47
Whilst he was trying to find it, he saw on the side of the road a beautiful lady who was crying bitterly.
Who acts: vizir, beautiful lady · What happens: try, find, see, cry · To what, where: way, side
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 (vizir, beautiful lady), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 trying | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trying | aux |
| 4 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trying | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 road | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 crying | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crying | aux |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lady | acl:relcl |
| 23 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 22 crying | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | vizir | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | vizir not said here | way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past | vizir | the side of the road and a beautiful lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | a beautiful lady | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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