The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 34

They were delighted with Ghouls (who lived among the tombs) and Geni, who seemed to be a kind of ogres, and with Princesses who work magic spells, and with Peris, who are Arab fairies.

Who acts: People, Ghouls, Geni, Princesses · What happens: be, live, seem, work · To what, where: tombs, kind, magic spells, Arab fairies

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 (People, Ghouls, Geni, Princesses), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Ghouls	case
5	Ghouls	Ghoul	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 delighted	obl
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ghouls	acl:relcl
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 tombs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tombs	det
11	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
14	Geni	Geni	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 seemed	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	21 kind	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 kind	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kind	det
21	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seemed	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 ogres	case
23	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kind	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Princesses	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Princesses	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 Princesses	case
27	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kind	conj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 work	nsubj
29	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Princesses	acl:relcl
30	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 spells	amod
31	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 work	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fairies	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fairies	cc
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 Peris	case
35	Peris	Peris	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 fairies	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fairies	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 fairies	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 fairies	cop
39	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fairies	amod
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 delighted	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	People			with Ghouls; delighted property	tree rules
2	live	past	Ghouls		the tombs		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tomb=Location
3	seem	past	Geni				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	Geni not said here	a kind and Princesses		of ogres	tree rules
5	work	present	Princesses	magic spells			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spell=Material
6	is a	present		Arab fairies		with Peris	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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