The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 28
But in order to give her variety in her confinement he has built her seven palaces such as have never been seen before.
Who acts: Danhasch, imagination · What happens: give, build, not see, confine · To what, where: variety, confinement, seven palaces
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danhasch, imagination), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 give | mark |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 variety | nmod:poss |
| 7 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 confinement | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 confinement | nmod:poss |
| 10 | confinement | confinement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 built | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | aux |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 confinement | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 palaces | nmod:poss |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 palaces | nummod |
| 16 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 as | amod |
| 18 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 palaces | conj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 seen | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 built | ccomp |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | to-infinitive | imagination's variety | imagination's confinement | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variety=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | present · perfect | Danhasch | imagination's confinement not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | present · perfect · passive | imagination's seven palaces and such as | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | confine | imagination | nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=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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