The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 87
For twenty days he rode straight on, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, till he found himself drawing near the frontiers of Persia.
Who acts: prince · What happens: ride, turn, find, draw · To what, where: right hand, prince, frontiers
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 (prince), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 on | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rode | advcl |
| 10 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 9 turning | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hand | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 left | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 left | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 left | det |
| 18 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 found | xcomp |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 frontiers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 frontiers | det |
| 27 | frontiers | frontier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 drawing | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Persia | case |
| 29 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 frontiers | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | prince | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | prince not said here | the right hand nor the left | neither property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | find | past | prince | prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | prince not said here | the frontiers of Persia | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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