The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 4
On one side lay a huge pile of bones--human bones, and on the other numberless spits for roasting!
What happens: lie · To what, where: huge pile, one side
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pile | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pile | amod |
| 7 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bones | case |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pile | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 bones | punct |
| 11 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bones | amod |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bones | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spits | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spits | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 spits | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spits | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spits | amod |
| 18 | numberless | numberless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spits | amod |
| 19 | spits | spit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 roasting | case |
| 21 | roasting | roasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spits | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a huge pile of bones and human bones | one side | on the other numberless spits for roasting | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pile=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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