The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 49
Not content with this, one brought me splendid garments, while another filled a basin with scented water and poured it over my hands, and the rest busied themselves with preparing refreshments.
Who acts: you, one, another, rest · What happens: not content, bring, fill, scent, pour, busy · To what, where: splendid garments, me, basin, water, hands, basins
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 (you, one, another, rest), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 content | advmod |
| 2 | content | content | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 content | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 content | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garments | amod |
| 10 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 filled | mark |
| 13 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 basin | det |
| 16 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 basin | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 poured | cc |
| 21 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 poured | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 poured | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 busied | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 busied | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rest | det |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 busied | nsubj |
| 30 | busied | busy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 content | conj |
| 31 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 busied | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 refreshments | case |
| 33 | preparing | preparing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 refreshments | amod |
| 34 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 busied | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not content | imperative | you not said here | with this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | one | splendid garments | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination garment=Theme | |||
| 3 | fill | past | another | a basin | with scented water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent basin=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 4 | scent | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | pour | past | another not said here | water | my hands | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | busy | past | the rest | basins = basin | with preparing refreshments | 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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