The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 8

"When you arrived here did you not sit down on the ground?" asked the genius, "and did you not take some dates from your wallet, and whilst eating them did not you throw the stones about?"

Who acts: you, genius · What happens: arrive, not sit down, ask, not take, eat, do · To what, where: ground, dates, wallet, stones · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, genius), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 arrived	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	advcl
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arrived	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sit	nsubj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 sit	advmod
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sit	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 genius	det
18	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 take	advmod
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 dates	det
27	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 take	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 wallet	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wallet	nmod:poss
30	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 did	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 did	cc
33	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	34 eating	mark
34	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 did	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 eating	obj
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	parataxis
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 throw	advmod
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 throw	nsubj
39	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 did	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 stones	det
41	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 throw	obj
42	about	about	ADP	_	39 throw	obl
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arrive in a quote	past	you		here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not sit down in a quote	past · do-support	you		the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	the genius			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not take in a quote	past · do-support	you	some dates	your wallet	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent date=Theme from wallet=Initial_Location
5	eat in a quote	gerund		dates = date		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	do in a quote	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not throw in a quote	present	you	the stones		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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