The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 42
I began by picking up all the largest diamonds I could find and storing them carefully in the leathern wallet which had held my provisions; this I tied securely to my belt.
Who acts: I, this, my · What happens: begin, pick up, find, store, hold, tie · To what, where: largest diamonds, diamonds, leathern wallet
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 picking | mark |
| 4 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 began | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picking | compound:prt |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 diamonds | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 diamonds | det |
| 8 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 diamonds | amod |
| 9 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 picking | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 diamonds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 storing | cc |
| 14 | storing | store | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 picking | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 storing | obj |
| 16 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 storing | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wallet | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wallet | det |
| 19 | leathern | leathern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wallet | amod |
| 20 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 storing | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 held | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 held | aux |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wallet | acl:relcl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 provisions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 held | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 tied | punct |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 tied | nsubj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 tied | nsubj |
| 29 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 30 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 29 tied | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 belt | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 belt | nmod:poss |
| 33 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tied | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | I not said here | all largest diamonds | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | could | I | all largest diamonds not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic | ||||
| 4 | store | gerund | I not said here | diamonds = diamond | the leathern wallet | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in wallet=Location | ||
| 5 | hold | past · perfect · passive | the leathern wallet | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme provision=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | tie | past | this | to my belt; securely property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to belt=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | provide | my | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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