The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 5
He gave her a vessel of water and then went back to his place and his thoughts, and with his mind busy over his last adventure, he put his gold into a long and narrow purse, which he could easily carry in his belt.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: give, go back, put, carry, think, mind · To what, where: vessel, woman, gold, long purse, belt
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vessel | det |
| 5 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vessel | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thoughts | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 place | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 busy | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 busy | nsubj |
| 23 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 put | advcl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 adventure | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 adventure | amod |
| 27 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 busy | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 busy | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 gold | nmod:poss |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 purse | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 purse | det |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 purse | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 narrow | cc |
| 37 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 long | conj |
| 38 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 carry | punct |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 carry | obj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 carry | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 carry | aux |
| 43 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 44 carry | advmod |
| 44 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 purse | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 belt | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 belt | nmod:poss |
| 47 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 carry | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | stranger | a vessel of water | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient vessel=Theme | |||
| 2 | go back | past | stranger not said here | then | to stranger's place and stranger's thoughts result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | |||
| 3 | put | past | stranger | stranger's gold | a long purse | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gold=Goal | |||
| 4 | carry | could | stranger | a long purse | stranger's belt | easily property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in belt=Location | ||
| 5 | think | stranger | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | mind | stranger | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | adventure | stranger | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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