The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 79
As to the furniture, he entreated the judge at least to allow him to keep part to make up for the five hundred pieces of gold which had been stolen from him.
Who acts: judge · What happens: entreat, allow, keep, make up, steal · To what, where: judge, least, part, gold
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 (judge), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 furniture | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 furniture | det |
| 4 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreated | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 furniture | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entreated | nsubj |
| 7 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 judge | det |
| 9 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreated | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 least | case |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 entreated | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 allow | mark |
| 13 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 entreated | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 allow | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allow | xcomp |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 keep | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 make | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pieces | det |
| 23 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | compound |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pieces | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 stolen | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 stolen | aux:pass |
| 31 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 gold | acl:relcl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stolen | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | judge | the judge | least | as the furniture | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=Recipient | ||
| 2 | allow | to-infinitive | judge not said here | judge | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | judge not said here | part | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make up | to-infinitive | judge not said here | for the hundred pieces of gold | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | steal | past · perfect · passive | gold | from judge | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source |
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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