The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 22
Then quantities of aloes wood, camphor, and pistachio-nuts; and lastly, a beautiful slave girl, whose robes glittered with precious stones.
Who acts: robes · What happens: glitter
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 quantities | advmod |
| 2 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | aloes | aloe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wood | compound |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quantities | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 camphor | punct |
| 7 | camphor | camphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nuts | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nuts | cc |
| 10 | pistachio | pistachio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nuts | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pistachio | punct |
| 12 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quantities | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 girl | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 girl | cc |
| 15 | lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 20 girl | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lastly | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 19 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 girl | compound |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quantities | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 glittered | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 robes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 glittered | nsubj |
| 24 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 girl | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 stones | case |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stones | amod |
| 27 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 glittered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quantities | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | robes | with precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=Theme |
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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