The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 71
A few minutes before the sun rose, a rich Christian merchant, who supplied the palace with all sorts of necessaries, left his house, after a night of feasting, to go to the bath.
Who acts: few minutes, rich Christian merchant · What happens: rise, supply, leave, go, sort · To what, where: rich Christian merchant, palace, house, bath, necessaries
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 (few minutes, rich Christian merchant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 rose | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 merchant | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 merchant | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 merchant | amod |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 merchant | amod |
| 12 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 supplied | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 supplied | nsubj |
| 15 | supplied | supply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supplied | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sorts | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sorts | det |
| 20 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 palace | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 necessaries | case |
| 22 | necessaries | necessary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sorts | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 night | punct |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 feasting | case |
| 32 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 night | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 bath | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bath | det |
| 38 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a few minutes | a rich Christian merchant | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | supply | past | a rich Christian merchant | the palace | with all sorts of necessaries | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Recipient with sort=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | a few minutes not said here | revenge's house | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | a few minutes not said here | the bath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bath=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | sort | necessaries | nom sort «cognition 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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