The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 5
And, bidding the man pick up the cradle and follow him, he turned towards home.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: bid, pick up, follow, turn · To what, where: man, cradle
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 (gardener), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidding | punct |
| 3 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 turned | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidding | obj |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bidding | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pick | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cradle | det |
| 9 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 follow | cc |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pick | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidding | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | gardener not said here | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | infinitive | gardener not said here | the cradle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | gardener not said here | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | gardener | towards home | 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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