The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 12
Then the lady signed to him to follow, and they went their way.
Who acts: lady, Ladies · What happens: sign, follow, go · To what, where: man, way
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 (lady, Ladies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 signed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signed | nsubj |
| 4 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 signed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 follow | mark |
| 8 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 signed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 signed | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | the lady | man | then | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Ladies = lady | Ladies's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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