The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
After a journey which lasted some months I arrived at length at the gates of this city.
Who acts: I · What happens: last, arrive · To what, where: length
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 journey | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lasted | obl |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lasted | nsubj |
| 5 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 months | det |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lasted | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 gates | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gates | det |
| 14 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 arrived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gates | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | after a journey; month | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | I | length | at the gates of this city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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