The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 57
The three Calenders bowed low on entering, and thanked the ladies for their kindness and hospitality.
Who acts: three Calenders · What happens: bow, thank · To what, where: entering, ladies
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 (three Calenders), 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 Calenders | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Calenders | nummod |
| 3 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 entering | case |
| 7 | entering | entering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thanked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thanked | cc |
| 10 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ladies | det |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thanked | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 kindness | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thanked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hospitality | cc |
| 17 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindness | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the three Calenders | entering | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on entering=Location | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the three Calenders not said here | the ladies | for Calenders's kindness and hospitality | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lady=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
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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