The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 60
First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a thousand sequins, and another like to it of crimson stuff.
Who acts: bed · What happens: cost · To what, where: thousand sequins
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 (bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1517): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 bed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hangings | case |
| 5 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hangings | amod |
| 6 | hangings | hanging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bed | nmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 cloth | det |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hangings | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cloth | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cost | nsubj |
| 13 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bed | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sequins | nummod |
| 16 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 another | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 another | cc |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 bed | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 another | amod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stuff | case |
| 24 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuff | amod |
| 25 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 another | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | past | a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold | thousand sequins | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sequin=Value |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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