The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 32

Meanwhile Zobeida had turned to the three Calenders and inquired if, as they were all blind, they were brothers.

Who acts: Zobeida · What happens: turn, inquire, be · To what, where: three Calenders, brothers

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 (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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Calenders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Calenders	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Calenders	nummod
8	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 inquired	cc
10	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 turned	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 inquired	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blind	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 blind	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blind	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 blind	advmod
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 inquired	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brothers	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brothers	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brothers	cop
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blind	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	Zobeida		the three Calenders	meanwhile property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to calender=Trajectory
2	inquire speech: other	participle	Zobeida not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Zobeida			all, blind property	tree rules
4	is a	past	Zobeida	brothers			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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