The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 21
He then provided me with a large sack, and pointed out to me a party of others equipped in like manner.
Who acts: captain · What happens: provide, point out, equip · To what, where: me, party, others, manner
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 (captain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 provided | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 provided | advmod |
| 3 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 provided | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sack | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sack | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sack | amod |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 provided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pointed | cc |
| 11 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 provided | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pointed | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pointed | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 party | det |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pointed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 party | nmod |
| 19 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 others | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 equipped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | captain | me | then | with a large sack | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with sack=Theme | ||
| 2 | point out | participle | a party of others | me | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent party=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | equip | participle | others not said here | manner | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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