The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 90
He did so, and soon reappeared leading two black dogs by a chain, which he brought into the centre of the hall.
Who acts: Amina · What happens: do, reappear, lead, bring · To what, where: two black dogs, chain, centre
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 (Amina), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reappeared | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reappeared | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 reappeared | advmod |
| 7 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 reappeared | xcomp |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 dogs | nummod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dogs | amod |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leading | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 chain | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chain | det |
| 14 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leading | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 centre | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 centre | det |
| 21 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hall | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hall | det |
| 24 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 centre | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Amina | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reappear | past | Amina not said here | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | Amina not said here | two black dogs | by a chain | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme by chain=Destination | |||
| 4 | bring | past | Amina | a chain | the centre of the hall | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme into centre=Destination |
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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