The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 51
Then he departed, and on the twentieth day of his journey fell in with the dervish on the same spot as Prince Bahman had met him, and began to question him as to the place where the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water were to be found.
Who acts: fate, Bahman · What happens: depart, fall in, meet, begin, question, find · To what, where: fate, Talking Bird
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 departed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 dervish | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dervish | det |
| 17 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spot | amod |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dervish | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 met | mark |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 met | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 met | aux |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 fell | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 met | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 began | cc |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 question | mark |
| 32 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 question | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 place | det |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 question | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 53 found | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Bird | det |
| 40 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Bird | compound |
| 41 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 found | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Tree | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Tree | det |
| 44 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Tree | compound |
| 45 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Bird | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Water | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Water | det |
| 48 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Water | amod |
| 49 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Bird | conj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 found | aux:pass |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 found | mark |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 found | aux:pass |
| 53 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 place | acl:relcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | fate | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | fate not said here | day | with the dervish on the same spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect | Bahman Prince | fate | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | fate not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | question speech: other | to-infinitive | fate not said here | fate | as the place | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Recipient as place=Attribute | |||
| 6 | find | past · passive | fate not said here | the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree and the Golden Water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 7 | journey | fate | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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