The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 9
The following year another prince was born and sent adrift, but happily for the baby, the intendant of the gardens again was walking by the canal, and carried it home as before.
Who acts: intendant · What happens: follow, bear, send, walk, carry · To what, where: prince, intendant
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 (intendant), 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 year | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 born | conj |
| 10 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sent | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 baby | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 baby | cc |
| 13 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 16 baby | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 baby | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 baby | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 intendant | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 intendant | det |
| 19 | intendant | intendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 baby | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gardens | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gardens | det |
| 22 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 intendant | nmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 walking | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 walking | aux |
| 25 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 intendant | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 canal | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 canal | det |
| 28 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walking | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carried | cc |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carried | obj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 carried | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 before | advmod |
| 35 | before | before | ADV | _ | 31 carried | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | another prince | year | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | adrift property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | walk | past · progressive | the intendant of the gardens not said here | again | by the canal | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by canal=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | carry | past | intendant | before, home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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