The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 78
The young man bent his head very low, but did not rise.
Who acts: young man · What happens: bend, not rise · To what, where: head
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 (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 low | advmod |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bent | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rise | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 rise | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rise | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 rise | advmod |
| 13 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 bent | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | the young man | man's head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | ||||
| 2 | not rise | past · do-support | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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