The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 4
So I stayed with him till the time of the monsoon, and every day we added to our store of ivory till all his ware-houses were overflowing with it.
Who acts: I, we, ware houses · What happens: stay, add, overflow
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, ware houses), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | obl |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 monsoon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monsoon | det |
| 11 | monsoon | monsoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 added | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 added | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 added | nsubj |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 store | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 store | nmod:poss |
| 20 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 added | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ivory | case |
| 22 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 store | nmod |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 overflowing | mark |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 houses | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 houses | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 houses | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ware | punct |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 overflowing | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 overflowing | aux |
| 30 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 added | advcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 overflowing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | I | time | with monsoon | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | we | day | to our store of ivory | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to store=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | overflow | past · progressive | monsoon's ware houses | with liberty | tree rules |
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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