The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 15
I then got a lock-smith to make me a bit and a pair of spurs after a pattern that I drew for him, and when all these things were completed I presented them to the king and showed him how to use them.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, make, draw, complete, present, show · To what, where: lock smith, me, pattern, things, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 smith | det |
| 5 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smith | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 lock | punct |
| 7 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pair | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pair | det |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bit | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 spurs | case |
| 17 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 pattern | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pattern | det |
| 20 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spurs | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 drew | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 drew | nsubj |
| 23 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pattern | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drew | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 presented | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 presented | cc |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 completed | mark |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 things | det:predet |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 things | det |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 completed | aux:pass |
| 33 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 presented | advcl |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 presented | nsubj |
| 35 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 presented | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 king | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 presented | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 showed | cc |
| 41 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 presented | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 showed | iobj |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 use | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 use | mark |
| 45 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 showed | ccomp |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 use | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | a lock smith | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smith=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | a bit and a pair of spurs after a pattern obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 3 | draw | past | I | a pattern | for king | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Result for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | complete | past · passive | all things | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | present | past | I | things = thing | the king | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 6 | show | past | I not said here | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | use | to-infinitive | things = thing | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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