The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 68
So the three weddings were celebrated that same day, but with a great difference.
What happens: celebrate · To what, where: three weddings
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 celebrated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weddings | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 weddings | nummod |
| 4 | weddings | wedding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 6 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 celebrated | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 difference | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 difference | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 difference | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 difference | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 difference | amod |
| 15 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 celebrated | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the three weddings | day | with a great difference | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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