The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 56
He then ran off triumphantly, without having been seen by anyone, and congratulating himself that the object of his hatred was dead, and would trouble him no more.
Who acts: dervish, anyone, object · What happens: run off, see, congratulate, be · To what, where: dervish
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 (dervish, anyone, object), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 anyone | case |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 seen | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dead | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dead | cc |
| 15 | congratulating | congratulate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 dead | csubj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 congratulating | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 dead | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 object | det |
| 19 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dead | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hatred | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hatred | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 object | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | cop |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seen | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 trouble | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 trouble | cc |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 trouble | aux |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 trouble | obj |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 trouble | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | dervish | then | triumphantly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | gerund · perfect · passive | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | congratulate | gerund | dervish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the object of dervish's hatred | dead property | 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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