The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 70
As to the Talking Bird, she had already made acquaintance with him.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: make · To what, where: acquaintance
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 Bird | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bird | det |
| 4 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | compound |
| 5 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bird | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 acquaintance | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | dinner | acquaintance | as the Talking Bird; with Sultan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product |
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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