The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 58
Delighted with his discovery he left the cave, replaced the slab, and having finished cutting down the tree waited for the gardener's return.
Who acts: Prince, gardener · What happens: leave, replace, finish, cut down, wait, discover · To what, where: cave, slab, tree
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, gardener), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2171): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 discovery | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 4 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Delighted | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replaced | punct |
| 10 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slab | det |
| 12 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replaced | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waited | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 waited | cc |
| 15 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 finished | aux |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 waited | advcl |
| 17 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 finished | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 cutting | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cutting | obj |
| 21 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 return | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gardener | det |
| 24 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 return | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 gardener | case |
| 26 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waited | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Prince | the cave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | replace | past | Prince not said here | the slab | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slab=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | finish | gerund · perfect | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | cut down | gerund | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | |||||
| 5 | wait | past | Prince not said here | for the gardener's return | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | discover | Prince | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | return | the gardener | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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