The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 48
Then one of the Calenders, addressing himself to Zobeida as the principal lady, began his story.
Who acts: Calenders · What happens: address, begin · To what, where: Highness, Zobeida, one
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 began | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Calenders | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Calenders | det |
| 5 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 began | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 addressing | punct |
| 7 | addressing | address | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Calenders | acl |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 addressing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Zobeida | case |
| 10 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 addressing | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 addressing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Calenders | punct |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 story | nmod:poss |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | gerund | the Calenders not said here | Highness | Zobeida | as the principal lady | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | ||
| 2 | begin | past | the Calenders | one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
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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