The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 130

Then she took a vessel of water and pronounced over it some words I did not understand; then, on throwing the water over him, he became immediately a young man once more.

Who acts: daughter, I, son · What happens: take, pronounce, not understand, throw, become · To what, where: vessel, words, water, young man

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I, son), 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	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vessel	det
5	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vessel	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pronounced	cc
9	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pronounced	obl
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 words	det
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pronounced	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 understand	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 understand	advmod
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 words	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 became	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 then	punct
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	22 throwing	mark
22	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 became	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throwing	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 throwing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 throwing	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	29 became	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 became	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	daughter	a vessel of water		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
2	pronounce	past	daughter not said here	some words	water			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	not understand	past · do-support	I	some words not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	throw	gerund	son not said here	the water			over son	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme over he=Destination
5	become	past	son	a young man		then	immediately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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