The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 86
Having done this she begged the Calenders to sit on a sofa on one side of the room, and the Caliph and his friends to place themselves opposite.
Who acts: this, Calenders, Caliph · What happens: have, do, beg, sit, opposite · To what, where: Calenders, sofa · 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 (this, Calenders, Caliph), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 begged | csubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Calenders | det |
| 7 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 begged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sit | mark |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 begged | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sofa | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sofa | det |
| 12 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 side | nummod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 opposite | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 opposite | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Caliph | det |
| 22 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 opposite | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 friends | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friends | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Caliph | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 place | mark |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 opposite | compound |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 27 place | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | this | the Calenders | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent calender=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Calenders not said here | a sofa | on one side of the room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location | |||
| 5 | opposite | the Caliph and Caliph's friends | tree rules |
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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