The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
The Calenders and the Caliph looked at each other, and whispered together, unheard by Zobeida and Sadie, who were tending their fainting sister.
Who acts: Calenders, Zobeida · What happens: look, whisper, tend · To what, where: fainting sister
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 (Calenders, Zobeida), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Calenders | det |
| 2 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Caliph | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Caliph | det |
| 5 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Calenders | conj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whispered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whispered | cc |
| 12 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 looked | conj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 whispered | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unheard | punct |
| 15 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 whispered | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Zobeida | case |
| 17 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 whispered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Sadie | cc |
| 19 | Sadie | Sadie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zobeida | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tending | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tending | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tending | aux |
| 23 | tending | tend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 Zobeida | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sister | compound |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tending | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Calenders and the Caliph | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | participle | the Calenders and the Caliph not said here | by Zobeida and Sadie; together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by zobeida=Location | ||||
| 3 | tend | past · progressive | Zobeida and Sadie | Calenders's fainting sister | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme |
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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