The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 26
The fame of these wonders soon spread abroad, and people came from far and near to see and admire.
Who acts: fame, people · What happens: spread, come, see, admire
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fame, people), 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 | 2 fame | det |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wonders | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 wonders | det |
| 5 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fame | nmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 spread | advmod |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 far | case |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 near | cc |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 far | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 admire | cc |
| 20 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | the fame of this wonders | abroad, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | admire | infinitive | people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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