The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 9
Other men, as brave as you, have ridden down this road, and have put me that question.
Who acts: Other men · What happens: ride down, put · To what, where: road, me
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 (Other men), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 brave | advmod |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 men | punct |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ridden | aux |
| 10 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 ridden | compound:prt |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ridden | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ridden | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 question | det |
| 20 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride down | present · perfect | Other men | this road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | present · perfect | Other men not said here | me | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent i=Asset question=Goal |
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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