The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 84
When they had finished Zobeida rose from her seat, and, taking Amina by the hand, she said to her, "My sister, our friends will excuse us if we seem to forget their presence and fulfil our nightly task."
Who acts: Calenders, finished Zobeida, seat, friends, we, our · What happens: finish, rise, take, say, excuse, seem · To what, where: seat, Amina, Giafar, us, presence, nightly task · Speech: someone speaks here
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, finished Zobeida, seat, friends), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Zobeida | amod |
| 5 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taking | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rose | advcl |
| 14 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sister | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sister | punct |
| 25 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 excuse | punct |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 friends | nmod:poss |
| 29 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 excuse | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 excuse | aux |
| 31 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sister | parataxis |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 excuse | obj |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 seem | mark |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 seem | nsubj |
| 35 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 excuse | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 forget | mark |
| 37 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 seem | xcomp |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 presence | nmod:poss |
| 39 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 forget | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fulfil | cc |
| 41 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 forget | conj |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 task | nmod:poss |
| 43 | nightly | nightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 task | amod |
| 44 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fulfil | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 sister | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Calenders = calender | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | finished Zobeida | Giafar's seat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | finished Zobeida not said here | Amina | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument amina=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | seat | Giafar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | excuse in a quote | future | our friends | us | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 6 | seem a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | forget in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | Calenders's presence | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fulfil in a quote | present | we not said here | our nightly task | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | task in a quote | our | nom task «act 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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