The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 53
As he spoke he drew a small case of medicines from his pocket and rubbed the neck of the hunchback with some ointment made of balsam.
Who acts: man · What happens: speak, draw, rub, make · To what, where: small case, neck, ointment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 case | amod |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 medicines | case |
| 10 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 case | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 medicines | nmod | ||
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rubbed | cc |
| 15 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 neck | det |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hunchback | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hunchback | det |
| 20 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 neck | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 ointment | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 ointment | det |
| 23 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunchback | nmod |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ointment | acl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 balsam | case |
| 26 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | man | a small case of medicines from man's pocket | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rub | past | man not said here | the neck of the hunchback with some ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | some ointment not said here | of balsam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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