The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 100

Zobeida remained for some time in the middle of the room, till at last Sadie went up to her and begged her to sit down, as she also had her part to play.

Who acts: Zobeida, Sadie · What happens: remain, go up, beg, sit down, have, play · To what, where: middle, Sadie, last Sadie, part

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zobeida, Sadie), 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	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Sadie	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Sadie	amod
16	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sit	mark
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 sit	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	also	also	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 part	nmod:poss
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 play	mark
35	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 part	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	remain	past	Zobeida			the middle of the room	time	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	go up	past			Sadie	last Sadie		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	beg speech: request	past			Sadie			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	Sadie	Sadie's part				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
6	play	to-infinitive	Sadie not said here	Sadie's part not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «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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