The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 90
To celebrate it I ordered my steward to bring me a very fat cow to sacrifice.
Who acts: I, steward · What happens: celebrate, order, bring, sacrifice · To what, where: feast, steward, fat cow, me
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 (I, steward), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 celebrate | mark |
| 2 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ordered | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 celebrate | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 steward | nmod:poss |
| 7 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cow | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 fat | advmod |
| 13 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cow | amod |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sacrifice | mark |
| 16 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cow | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | to-infinitive | I not said here | feast | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | I | my steward | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent steward=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | my steward not said here | a fat cow | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination cow=Theme | |||
| 4 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | my steward not said here | a fat cow not said here | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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