The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 67
Being assured of this I returned to the cavern, and amassed a rich treasure of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and jewels of all kinds which strewed the ground.
Who acts: I, jewels · What happens: assure, return, amass, strew, treasure · To what, where: rich treasure, ground, diamonds
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, jewels), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 assured | aux:pass |
| 2 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 assured | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cavern | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cavern | det |
| 9 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amassed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 amassed | cc |
| 12 | amassed | amass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 treasure | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 treasure | amod |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amassed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 diamonds | case |
| 17 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 treasure | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rubies | punct |
| 19 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 diamonds | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 emeralds | punct |
| 21 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 diamonds | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 strewed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 strewed | cc |
| 24 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 strewed | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kinds | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 kinds | det |
| 27 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 jewels | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 strewed | nsubj |
| 29 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 amassed | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ground | det |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 strewed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | gerund · passive | I not said here | of this | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return | past | I | to the cavern result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cavern=Result | ||||
| 3 | amass | past | I not said here | a rich treasure of diamonds and rubies and emeralds | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strew | past | jewels of all kinds | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 5 | treasure | diamonds and rubies and emeralds | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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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