The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 49
The body of my wife, arrayed in her richest robes and decked with all her jewels, was laid upon the bier.
What happens: array, deck, lay · To what, where: body, richest robes, bier
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 body | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrayed | punct |
| 7 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 body | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 robes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 robes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 robes | amod |
| 11 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrayed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 decked | cc |
| 13 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 arrayed | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 jewels | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 jewels | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 decked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 body | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laid | aux:pass |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 bier | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bier | det |
| 23 | bier | bier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | participle | the body of my wife not said here | body's richest robes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deck | participle | with body's jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | the body of my wife | the bier | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon bier=Destination |
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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