The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 59
They looked at them for some time, and then the Sultan ordered them to make a camp by the edge of the water.
Who acts: mountains, Sultan · What happens: look, order, make · To what, where: mountains, camp
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 (mountains, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 ordered | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 camp | det |
| 18 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 edge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 edge | det |
| 21 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 edge | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | mountains = mountain | time | at fish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||
| 2 | order | past | the Sultan | mountains = mountain | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | a camp | by the edge of the water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=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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