The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 90
He blessed the lady a thousand times, and, shutting up his shop where he had no longer anything to do, he returned home.
Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: bless, shut up, have, do, return · To what, where: lady, shop, anything
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 (Alnaschar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blessed | nsubj |
| 2 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blessed | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thousand | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blessed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shutting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shutting | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shutting | punct |
| 11 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 blessed | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 shutting | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shop | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shutting | obj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shutting | advcl |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 anything | advmod |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 anything | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blessed | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 returned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | Alnaschar | the lady | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | |||
| 2 | shut up | gerund | Alnaschar not said here | Alnaschar's shop | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Alnaschar | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Alnaschar not said here | anything not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | return | past | Alnaschar | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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