The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 79
His saddle and bridle were of massive gold, curiously wrought; one side of his trough was filled with clean barley and sesame, and the other with rose water.
Who acts: saddle · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: one side
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 (saddle), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bridle | cc |
| 4 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saddle | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gold | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrought | punct |
| 10 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 11 wrought | advmod |
| 11 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 side | nummod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trough | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 trough | nmod:poss |
| 17 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 filled | aux:pass |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wrought | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 barley | case |
| 21 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 barley | amod |
| 22 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sesame | cc |
| 24 | sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 barley | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 other | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 other | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 30 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 water | compound |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 other | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | animal's saddle and bridle | of massive gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | animal's saddle and bridle not said here | curiously property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | one side | of animal's trough; with clean barley and sesame | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with barley=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | be | animal's saddle and bridle not said here | with rose water | 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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