The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 108
He then lay down on the couch where the slave had been, and waited for the enchantress.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: lie down, wait · To what, where: couch
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | advmod |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 couch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 couch | det |
| 7 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 been | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 slave | det |
| 10 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 been | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 been | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 couch | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waited | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waited | cc |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 enchantress | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 enchantress | det |
| 18 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Sultan | the couch | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location | ||
| 2 | wait | past | Sultan not said here | for the enchantress | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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