The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 88
The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing five hundred pieces of gold.
Who acts: man, purse · What happens: obey, place, contain · To what, where: hands, hundred pieces
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 (man, purse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 placed | cc |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 placed | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 purse | det |
| 13 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | conj |
| 14 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 purse | acl |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 pieces | nummod |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 containing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pieces | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the man | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | place | participle | the man not said here | my brother's hands and a purse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination | ||||
| 3 | contain | gerund | a purse not said here | hundred pieces of gold | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=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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