The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 29
The first palace is entirely composed of rock crystal, the second of bronze, the third of fine steel, the fourth of another and more precious species of bronze, the fifth of touchstone, the sixth of silver, and the seventh of solid gold.
What happens: compose · To what, where: first palace
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 composed | aux:pass |
| 5 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 6 composed | advmod |
| 6 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 crystal | case |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crystal | compound |
| 9 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 composed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 second | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 second | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 crystal | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bronze | case |
| 14 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 second | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 third | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 third | det |
| 17 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crystal | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 steel | case |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 steel | amod |
| 20 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 third | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fourth | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fourth | det |
| 23 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crystal | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 fourth | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 species | cc |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 precious | advmod |
| 28 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 species | amod |
| 29 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crystal | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bronze | case |
| 31 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 species | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fifth | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fifth | det |
| 34 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crystal | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 touchstone | case |
| 36 | touchstone | touchstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fifth | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sixth | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sixth | det |
| 39 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crystal | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 silver | case |
| 41 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sixth | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 seventh | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 seventh | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 seventh | det |
| 45 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 composed | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 gold | case |
| 47 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 gold | amod |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 seventh | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | present · passive | the first palace | of rock crystal and the third of fine steel and the fourth of another and precious species of bronze and the fifth of touchstone and the sixth of silver; entirely property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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