The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 99
Now when I had ended my story, I proceeded to show the genius how to apply it to himself. "
Who acts: I · What happens: end, proceed, show, apply · To what, where: story, genius, man
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 proceeded | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | aux |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 proceeded | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 proceeded | nsubj |
| 10 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 show | mark |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 proceeded | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 genius | det |
| 14 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 apply | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 apply | mark |
| 17 | apply | apply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 show | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 apply | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 apply | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 proceeded | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect | I | my story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector story=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | proceed | past | I | now | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | I not said here | the genius | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | apply | to-infinitive | I not said here | story | man | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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