The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 64
When the Calenders had satisfied their hunger, they offered to play to their hostesses, if there were any instruments in the house.
Who acts: Calenders, instruments · What happens: satisfy, offer, play, be, hunger · To what, where: Calenders
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 (Calenders, instruments), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 satisfied | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Calenders | det |
| 3 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 satisfied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | aux |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 offered | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 satisfied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 offered | nsubj |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 play | mark |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offered | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hostesses | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hostesses | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hostesses | hostess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 play | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 offered | conj |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 instruments | det |
| 21 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 instruments | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past · perfect · passive | the Calenders | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer hunger=Result | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | Calenders = calender | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | Calenders = calender not said here | to Calenders's hostesses | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | any instruments in the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hunger | Calenders = calender | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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