The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 40
While they were gone an old Mussulman devotee appeared at the door, and asked leave to enter, as it was the hour of prayer.
Who acts: old Mussulman devotee, devotee · What happens: go, appear, ask, leave, enter, be · To what, where: sisters, door · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old Mussulman devotee, devotee), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 appeared | advcl |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 devotee | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 devotee | amod |
| 7 | Mussulman | mussulman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 devotee | compound |
| 8 | devotee | devotee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 enter | mark |
| 18 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 leave | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hour | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 hour | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hour | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hour | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hour | det |
| 24 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enter | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 prayer | case |
| 26 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hour | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | sisters = sister | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | a old Mussulman devotee | the door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a old Mussulman devotee not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | devotee | as the hour | of prayer | tree rules |
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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