The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 18
There she shall sit, in the coarsest clothes, and every Mussulman who enters the mosque shall spit in her face in passing.
Who acts: passion, Mussulman · What happens: sit, enter, spit · To what, where: coarsest clothes, mosque, face
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passion, Mussulman), 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 sit | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clothes | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clothes | det |
| 8 | coarsest | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 sit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spit | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spit | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Mussulman | det |
| 13 | Mussulman | mussulman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spit | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 enters | nsubj |
| 15 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Mussulman | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mosque | det |
| 17 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enters | obj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 spit | aux |
| 19 | spit | spit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spit | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 passing | case |
| 24 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spit | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | shall | passion | the coarsest clothes; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in clothes=Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | every Mussulman | the mosque | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mosque=Destination | ||||
| 3 | spit | shall | every Mussulman | passion's face | in passing | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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