The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 48
About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well.
Who acts: mile, centre · What happens: buy, size, stand · To what, where: nice little place, centre, old well
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mile, centre), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 mile | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mile | det |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mile | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bought | nsubj |
| 9 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 garden | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 garden | amod |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 court | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 court | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sized | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fair | punct |
| 23 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 court | amod |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 garden | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 centre | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 centre | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 centre | det |
| 28 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 centre | acl:relcl |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 well | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 well | amod |
| 34 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | half mile from this city | a nice little place | the centre | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | the centre | a old well | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer well=Stimulus |
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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