The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 6
I bought the woman who makes it for five hundred pieces of gold, so that I might never be without it."
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: buy, make, not be · To what, where: woman, much
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 (I, woman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bought | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 woman | acl:relcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pieces | nummod |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 makes | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pieces | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 it | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 it | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 it | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 it | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 it | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 it | cop |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bought | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | I | the woman | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the woman | much | for hundred pieces of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for piece=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | not is | might | I | without much | tree rules |
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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