The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 49
In order to live a quieter life, the good man put on the robe of a dervish, and divided his house into a quantity of small cells, where he soon established a number of other dervishes.
Who acts: man · What happens: live, put, divide, establish · To what, where: quieter life, good man, robe, house, quantity, number
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 (man), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 live | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | conj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 robe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 robe | det |
| 15 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dervish | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dervish | det |
| 18 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 robe | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 divided | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 divided | cc |
| 21 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 divided | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 quantity | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 quantity | det |
| 26 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 divided | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 cells | case |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cells | amod |
| 29 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 quantity | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 established | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 established | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 established | nsubj |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 established | advmod |
| 34 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 quantity | acl:relcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 number | det |
| 36 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 established | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 dervishes | case |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dervishes | amod |
| 39 | dervishes | dervish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 number | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | to-infinitive | a quieter life and the good man | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | the good man not said here | the robe of a dervish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | divide | past | man's house | a quantity of small cells | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | establish | past | man | a number of other dervishes | soon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
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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