The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 90
Prince Bahman, who, remembering the directions of the old woman, had been since sunrise on the look-out for some one, recognised the old man at once to be a dervish.
Who acts: Bahman · What happens: remember, be, recognise · To what, where: directions, look out, old man, dervish
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 (Bahman), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remembering | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 remembering | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remembering | punct |
| 6 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Bahman | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 directions | det |
| 8 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remembering | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 directions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sunrise | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sunrise | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sunrise | cop |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 sunrise | case |
| 17 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bahman | appos |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 out | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 out | det |
| 20 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 out | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 22 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sunrise | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 out | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bahman | punct |
| 27 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 recognised | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 once | case |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 recognised | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 dervish | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 dervish | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 dervish | det |
| 36 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 once | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | Bahman Prince | the directions of the old woman | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the look out for some one | since sunrise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recognise | past | Bahman Prince | the old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | Bahman Prince not said here | a dervish | 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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