The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 39
Then Prince Perviz pursued a lion and Prince Bahman a bear, and in a very few minutes they, too, lay dead.
Who acts: Prince, lion · What happens: pursue, lay · To what, where: lion
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, lion), 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 | 4 pursued | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | flat |
| 4 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pursued | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Bahman | cc |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lion | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pursued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lay | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 minutes | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 minutes | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 few | advmod |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 minutes | amod |
| 18 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lay | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 they | punct |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 lay | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 too | punct |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pursued | advcl |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lay | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | Prince | a lion and Bahman Prince | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lay | present | lion | minute | dead property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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