The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 62

Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with the figure of a man aiming an arrow at a lion, and finally a costly table, which had once belonged to King Solomon.

Who acts: man · What happens: carve, aim, belong, figure · To what, where: more beds, arrow, costly table, King Solomon, man

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 (man), 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 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 beds	amod
3	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carved	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fashion	case
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fashion	amod
6	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beds	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carved	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carved	cc
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vase	det
10	agate	agate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vase	compound
11	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carved	nsubj
12	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 figure	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 figure	det
15	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carved	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 figure	nmod
19	aiming	aim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 man	acl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 arrow	det
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 aiming	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 lion	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lion	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 aiming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 table	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 table	cc
27	finally	finally	ADV	_	30 table	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 table	det
29	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 table	amod
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 figure	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 belonged	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 belonged	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 belonged	aux
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 belonged	advmod
35	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 table	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 Solomon	case
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Solomon	compound
38	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 belonged	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 carved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	carve	participle · passive		more beds of different fashion		with the figure of a man and a costly table	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with figure=Instrument
2	aim	gerund	a man not said here	a arrow		at a lion	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme
3	belong	past · perfect · passive		a costly table	King Solomon	once property	tree rules
4	figure			a man			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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