The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 85
The gardener who took my passage is ill and cannot see you, but please come in and take these jars of olives and my bag, and I will follow as soon as I have taken leave of him."
Who acts: gardener, I, my · What happens: take, be, not see, come in, follow, pass · To what, where: passage, you, jars, leave
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 (gardener, I, my), 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 | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gardener | acl:relcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 passage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ill | cop |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ill | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 16 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 17 come | discourse |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ill | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 jars | det |
| 22 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 olives | case |
| 24 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 jars | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bag | cc |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bag | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jars | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 follow | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 follow | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 follow | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 follow | aux |
| 32 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ill | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 soon | advmod |
| 34 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 follow | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 taken | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 taken | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 taken | aux |
| 38 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 soon | advcl |
| 39 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 taken | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 leave | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 follow | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the gardener | my passage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the gardener | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | can | the gardener not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come in | infinitive | the gardener not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | the gardener not said here | this jars of olives and my bag | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | future | I | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | present · perfect | I | leave of gardener | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 8 | pass | my | nom passage «act 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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