The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 16
At these words he rose, and went to a closet, from which he brought out ten basins, all covered with blue stuff.
Who acts: man, ten basins · What happens: rise, go, bring out, cover · To what, where: words, closet, ten basins, all
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ten basins), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 closet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 closet | det |
| 11 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 brought | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 basins | nummod |
| 19 | basins | basin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covered | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 basins | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 stuff | case |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuff | amod |
| 25 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 covered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | man | this words | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | man not said here | a closet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to closet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bring out | past | man | ten basins | out property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basin=Patient | |||
| 4 | cover | participle · passive | ten basins not said here | all | with blue stuff | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stuff=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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