The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 56
He went down them and found himself in a roomy kind of cave in which stood fifty large bronze jars, each with a cover on it.
Who acts: Prince, cave · What happens: go down, find, stand · To what, where: roots, Prince, roomy kind, fifty large bronze jars
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, cave), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kind | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kind | det |
| 10 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kind | compound |
| 11 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kind | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cave | acl:relcl |
| 17 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 jars | nummod |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 jars | amod |
| 19 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jars | compound |
| 20 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 each | punct |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 kind | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 cover | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cover | det |
| 25 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 each | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cover | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Prince | roots = root | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | find | past | Prince not said here | Prince | a roomy kind of cave | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | stand | past | cave | fifty large bronze jars | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus |
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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