The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
So the next morning I set out with a company of poor wood-cutters, to whom the tailor had introduced me.
Who acts: I · What happens: set out, introduce · To what, where: tailor
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cutters | case |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cutters | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cutters | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 15 | cutters | cutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 company | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 introduced | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 introduced | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tailor | det |
| 20 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 introduced | aux |
| 22 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 set | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 introduced | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | I | morning | with a company of poor wood cutters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | introduce | past · perfect · passive | the tailor | 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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