The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 85
She also changed the slave into a cow, which she sent to my steward.
Who acts: Sultana · What happens: change, send · To what, where: slave, cow, steward
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 (Sultana), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 changed | advmod |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slave | det |
| 5 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cow | det |
| 8 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sent | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cow | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 steward | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steward | nmod:poss |
| 15 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Sultana | the slave | into a cow result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent slave=Patient into cow=Result | |||
| 2 | send | past | Sultana | a cow | my steward | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to steward=Destination |
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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