The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 4
Presently my raft was brought in and the bales opened in his presence, and the king declared that in all his treasury there were no such rubies and emeralds as those which lay in great heaps before him.
Who acts: bales, king, such rubies · What happens: bring in, open, declare, be, lie · To what, where: raft, presence, treasury, great heaps
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 (bales, king, such rubies), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 raft | nmod:poss |
| 3 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 opened | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bales | det |
| 9 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 presence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 declared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 declared | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 declared | nsubj |
| 18 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 were | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 treasury | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 treasury | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 23 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 were | obl |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 were | expl |
| 25 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 declared | advcl |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 rubies | det |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rubies | amod |
| 28 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 were | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 emeralds | cc |
| 30 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rubies | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 those | case |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 rubies | nmod |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 those | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 heaps | case |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 heaps | amod |
| 37 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lay | obl |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lay | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | past · passive | my raft | presently property | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the bales | king's presence | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in presence=Location | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | the king | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no such rubies as those and emeralds | king's treasury; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in treasury=Location | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | great heaps | before king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location |
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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