The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 7
Observing her shabby clothes, my brother thought that her gratitude was in reality a hint that he should give her some money to buy some new ones, so he held out two pieces of gold.
Who acts: brother, gratitude, stranger · What happens: observe, think, be, give, buy, hold out · To what, where: shabby clothes, reality, money, woman, new ones, two pieces
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 (brother, gratitude, 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 | Observing | observe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clothes | amod |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Observing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Observing | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 reality | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reality | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reality | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 reality | case |
| 14 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hint | det |
| 16 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reality | appos |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hint | acl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 money | det |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 buy | mark |
| 25 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 money | acl |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 ones | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ones | amod |
| 28 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 buy | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 held | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 held | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 held | nsubj |
| 32 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 held | compound:prt |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 pieces | nummod |
| 35 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 held | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 gold | case |
| 37 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pieces | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | gerund | my brother not said here | woman's shabby clothes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clothes=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | my brother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | woman's gratitude | reality | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | should | stranger | some money | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 5 | buy | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | some new ones | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hold out | past | stranger | two pieces of gold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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