The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 82
But on hearing that he had not slept at home I was much alarmed, and hastened to the cemetery, where, unluckily, the tombs were all so alike that I could not discover which was the one I was in search of, though I spent four days in looking for it.
Who acts: prince, I, tombs · What happens: not sleep, alarm, hasten, not discover, be, spend · To what, where: hearing, home, cemetery, one, search
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 (prince, I, tombs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 alarmed | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 hearing | case |
| 3 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 slept | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slept | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slept | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 slept | advmod |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hearing | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 alarmed | advmod |
| 14 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hastened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hastened | cc |
| 17 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 alarmed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cemetery | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cemetery | det |
| 20 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hastened | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 where | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 cemetery | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 where | punct |
| 24 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 17 hastened | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 one | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tombs | det |
| 27 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 one | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 one | cop |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 so | advmod |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 one | advmod |
| 31 | alike | alike | SCONJ | _ | 36 discover | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 discover | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 discover | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 discover | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 discover | advmod |
| 36 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 one | csubj |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 one | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 one | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alarmed | parataxis |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 search | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 search | cop |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 search | case |
| 44 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 one | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 49 spent | mark |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 spent | punct |
| 47 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 49 spent | mark |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 spent | nsubj |
| 49 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 search | acl |
| 50 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 days | nummod |
| 51 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 spent | obj |
| 52 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 53 looking | mark |
| 53 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 spent | advcl |
| 54 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 it | case |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 looking | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | past · perfect | prince | hearing not said here | home | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Theme | |||
| 2 | alarm | past · passive | hearing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the cemetery | unluckily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cemetery=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not discover | could | I | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the tombs | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | I | search | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | spend | past | I | search not said here | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Asset | |||
| 8 | look | gerund | I not said here | for tomb | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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