The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 55
On pushing away the earth he discovered a large slab of bronze, under which was disclosed a staircase with ten steps.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: push away, discover, disclose · To what, where: earth, large slab, staircase
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 pushing | mark |
| 2 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 discovered | advcl |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 pushing | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 earth | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushing | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 slab | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slab | amod |
| 10 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bronze | case |
| 12 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slab | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disclosed | punct |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 disclosed | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disclosed | aux:pass |
| 17 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 discovered | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 staircase | det |
| 19 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disclosed | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 steps | nummod |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 disclosed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push away | gerund | Prince not said here | the earth | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | |||
| 2 | discover | past | Prince | a large slab of bronze | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slab=Topic | ||||
| 3 | disclose | past · passive | Prince not said here | a staircase | with ten steps | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: staircase=Topic |
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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