The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 8
He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging at his expense, and sent slaves to wait upon me and carry my raft and my bales to my new dwelling place.
Who acts: Heaven, slaves · What happens: command, provide, send, wait, carry · To what, where: officers, me, slaves, raft, new dwelling place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Heaven, slaves), 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 commanded | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 officers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 provide | mark |
| 7 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 provide | iobj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 lodging | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lodging | det |
| 11 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lodging | amod |
| 12 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provide | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 expense | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 expense | nmod:poss |
| 15 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lodging | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 19 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wait | mark |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | xcomp |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carry | cc |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wait | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 raft | nmod:poss |
| 27 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carry | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bales | cc |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bales | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 raft | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 place | nmod:poss |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 place | amod |
| 34 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 place | compound |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carry | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Heaven | Heaven's officers | then | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent officer=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | provide | to-infinitive | Heaven not said here | me | with a suitable lodging at Heaven's expense | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with lodging=Theme | |||
| 3 | send | past | Heaven not said here | slaves | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | slaves not said here | upon me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location | ||||
| 5 | carry | infinitive | slaves not said here | my raft and my bales | my new dwelling place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent raft=Theme to place=Destination |
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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