The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 78
The next morning Prince Bahman got up very early, and after bidding farewell to his brother and sister, mounted his horse.
Who acts: next morning · What happens: get up, bid, mount · To what, where: horse
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 (next morning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 early | advmod |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mounted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mounted | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 bidding | mark |
| 13 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 mounted | advcl |
| 14 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 13 bidding | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bidding | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sister | cc |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brother | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bidding | punct |
| 21 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mounted | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the next morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bid | gerund | to prince's brother and sister; farewell property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | the next morning not said here | prince's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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