The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 77
Now you must take fifty jars, fill each half full of gold dust and fill them up with the olives.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, fill, fill up · To what, where: fifty jars, half, 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 (you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 jars | nummod |
| 6 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fill | punct |
| 8 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 half | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 fill | obj |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 half | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dust | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dust | compound |
| 14 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fill | cc |
| 16 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fill | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fill | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 fill | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 olives | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 olives | det |
| 21 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fill | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | you | fifty jars | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | infinitive | you not said here | each half | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill up | present | you not said here | jars = jar | with the olives | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with olive=Instrument |
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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