The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

Before the dishes were removed I made signs that writing materials, which stood in one corner of the room, should be laid in front of me.

Who acts: I, writing materials · What happens: remove, make, stand, lay · To what, where: dishes, signs, one corner, writing materials, front

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, writing materials), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	5 removed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dishes	det
3	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 removed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 removed	aux:pass
5	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 made	advcl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 laid	mark
10	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 materials	compound
11	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laid	nsubj:pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 materials	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 corner	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 corner	nummod
17	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 corner	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 materials	punct
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 laid	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 laid	aux:pass
24	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 made	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 front	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	remove	past · passive		the dishes		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	make	past	I	signs		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
3	stand	past	writing materials		one corner of the room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
4	lay	should · passive		writing materials	front of me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in front=Destination

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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