The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 83
After some time the Calenders got up and performed some curious dances, which delighted the rest of the company.
Who acts: Calenders, curious dances · What happens: get up, perform, delight · To what, where: curious dances, rest
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, curious dances), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:590): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Calenders | det |
| 5 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 got | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 performed | cc |
| 9 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 dances | det |
| 11 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dances | amod |
| 12 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 performed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 delighted | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 delighted | nsubj |
| 15 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dances | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delighted | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 company | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 company | det |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rest | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Calenders | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | perform | past | the Calenders not said here | some curious dances | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | delight | past | some curious dances | the rest of the company | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rest=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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