The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 93
There the physician put his affairs in order, and the next day there was a great crowd assembled in the hall to see his death, and the doings after it.
Who acts: physician · What happens: put, be, assemble, see, die · To what, where: affairs, order, great crowd, hall, death
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 (physician), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 put | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 physician | det |
| 3 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crowd | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 crowd | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crowd | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crowd | amod |
| 18 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | conj |
| 19 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 crowd | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hall | det |
| 22 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assembled | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 assembled | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 death | nmod:poss |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 doings | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 doings | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 doings | det |
| 30 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obl |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 doings | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the physician | physician's affairs | order; there | the doings after hall obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the physician not said here | a great crowd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | assemble | participle | a great crowd not said here | the hall | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | physician's death | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | die | physician | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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