The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 53
Now this Mussulman was employed by the Sultan, and furnished his table with oil and butter.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: employ, furnish · To what, where: Mussulman, table
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 (Sultan), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 employed | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Mussulman | det |
| 3 | Mussulman | Mussulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | aux:pass |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Sultan | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 furnished | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 furnished | cc |
| 11 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 table | nmod:poss |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 furnished | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 oil | case |
| 15 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 furnished | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 butter | cc |
| 17 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oil | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | the Sultan | this Mussulman | now | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | furnish | past | the Sultan not said here | doctor's table | with oil and butter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Recipient with oil=Theme |
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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