The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 16
All the while Schacabac was treated by the Barmecide as a familiar friend, and dressed in a garment out of his own wardrobe.
Who acts: familiar friend · What happens: treat, dress · To what, where: Schacabac, garment
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (familiar friend), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Schacabac | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Schacabac | det |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 Schacabac | mark |
| 4 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 treated | aux:pass |
| 6 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Barmecide | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Barmecide | det |
| 9 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treated | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 12 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treated | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dressed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dressed | cc |
| 16 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 treated | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 garment | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 garment | det |
| 19 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dressed | obl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 wardrobe | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wardrobe | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wardrobe | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wardrobe | amod |
| 24 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dressed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past · passive | a familiar friend | all Schacabac | by the Barmecide | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | a familiar friend not said here | a garment | out Barmecide's own wardrobe | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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