The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 112
Sire, there was once upon a time a merchant who possessed great wealth, in land and merchandise, as well as in ready money.
Who acts: Sire, merchant · What happens: be, possess · To what, where: great wealth, land
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, merchant), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | appos |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 possessed | nsubj |
| 12 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wealth | amod |
| 14 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possessed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 land | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possessed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 merchandise | cc |
| 19 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 money | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 money | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 money | case |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 money | amod |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possessed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sire | upon a time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | possess | past | a merchant | great wealth | land and merchandise | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wealth=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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