The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 76
They entered and bowed politely to the ladies and their guests.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: enter, bow
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 (merchants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bowed | cc |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 5 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ladies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ladies | det |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 guests | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 guests | nmod:poss |
| 11 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ladies | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | merchants = merchant | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bow | past | merchants = merchant not said here | to the ladies and merchants's guests; politely property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to lady=Pivot |
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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