The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 40
Now in selling the contents piece by piece I shall turn two hundred, and these hundreds I shall again lay out in glass, which will produce four hundred.
Who acts: I, glass · What happens: sell, turn, lay out, produce · To what, where: contents piece, two hundred, hundreds, glass, four hundred
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, glass), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 selling | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 selling | mark |
| 3 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 5 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 piece | compound |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 selling | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 piece | case |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 selling | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 piece | acl:relcl |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 turn | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hundreds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hundreds | cc |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 hundreds | det |
| 17 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 selling | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 lay | aux |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 lay | advmod |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hundreds | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 lay | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 glass | case |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 produce | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 produce | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 produce | aux |
| 28 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 glass | acl:relcl |
| 29 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 hundred | compound |
| 30 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 produce | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 selling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | gerund | the contents piece | now | by piece; this hundreds obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | shall | I | two hundred | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay out | shall | I | this hundreds not said here | glass | again | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme in glass=Destination | ||
| 4 | produce | future | glass | four hundred | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Result |
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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