The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 24
This lady's name was Zobeida, the porteress was Sadie, and the housekeeper was Amina.
Who acts: name, porteress, housekeeper, lady · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Zobeida, Sadie, Amina
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 (name, porteress, housekeeper, lady), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lady | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Zobeida | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Zobeida | cop |
| 6 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sadie | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porteress | det |
| 9 | porteress | porteress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sadie | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Sadie | cop |
| 11 | Sadie | Sadie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Zobeida | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Amina | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Amina | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 housekeeper | det |
| 15 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Amina | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Amina | cop |
| 17 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Zobeida | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Zobeida | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this lady's name | Zobeida and Sadie and Amina | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the porteress | Sadie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the housekeeper | Amina | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | this lady | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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