The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 42
Your sister found me this morning in the place where I always stand waiting to be hired.
Who acts: sister, I · What happens: find, stand, wait, hire · To what, where: me, place
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 (sister, I), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | 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 found | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stand | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 stand | advmod |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stand | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hired | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hired | aux:pass |
| 17 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 waiting | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Your sister | me | the place | morning | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||
| 2 | stand | present | I | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hire | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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