The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 108
He then bade me disguise myself, and we both slipped out of a garden door which opened on to the cemetery.
Who acts: story, we, garden door · What happens: bade, disguise, slip out, open on · To what, where: me, myself, garden door, cemetery
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, we, garden door), 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 | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 disguise | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slipped | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 slipped | nsubj |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 slipped | advmod |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 door | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 opened | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 cemetery | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cemetery | det |
| 22 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | story | me | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disguise | infinitive | story not said here | myself | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | slip out | past | we | a garden door | both property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | open on | past | a garden door | the cemetery | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cemetery=Recipient |
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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