The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 12
It happened one day that I passed a tree under which lay several dry gourds, and catching one up I amused myself with scooping out its contents and pressing into it the juice of several bunches of grapes which hung from every bush.
Who acts: It, I, tree, grapes · What happens: happen, pass, lie, catch up, amuse, scoop out · To what, where: one day, several dry gourds, one, myself, contents, juice
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, tree, grapes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 passed | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tree | acl:relcl |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gourds | amod |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gourds | amod |
| 15 | gourds | gourd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lay | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 amused | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 amused | cc |
| 18 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 amused | csubj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 catching | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 catching | compound:prt |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 amused | nsubj |
| 22 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 amused | obj |
| 24 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 25 scooping | mark |
| 25 | scooping | scoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 amused | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 scooping | compound:prt |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 contents | nmod:poss |
| 28 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 scooping | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pressing | cc |
| 30 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 scooping | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pressing | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 juice | det |
| 34 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pressing | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 bunches | case |
| 36 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bunches | amod |
| 37 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 juice | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 grapes | case |
| 39 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bunches | nmod |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 hung | nsubj |
| 41 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 grapes | acl:relcl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 bush | case |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 bush | det |
| 44 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hung | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | I | one day | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | a tree | several dry gourds | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gourd=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch up | gerund | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 5 | amuse | past | I | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | scoop out | gerund | I not said here | heart's contents | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme | ||||
| 7 | press | gerund | I not said here | the juice of several bunches of grapes | heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Theme | |||
| 8 | hang | past | grapes | every bush | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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