The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 27
After a few days Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz fell back into their ordinary way of life, and passed most of their time hunting.
Who acts: Prince, people · What happens: fall back, pass, hunt · To what, where: ordinary way, most
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 (Prince, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | flat |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Prince | cc |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | conj |
| 9 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | flat |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 passed | cc |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 passed | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hunting | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hunting | compound |
| 25 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 most | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall back | past | Prince and Prince | day | into people's ordinary way of life result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into way=Result | |||
| 2 | pass | past | Prince and Prince not said here | most of people's time hunting | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme most=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hunt | people | nom hunting «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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