The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 100
And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to send 10,000 gold pieces to Khacan for the purchase of the slave.
Who acts: Saouy, grand treasurer · What happens: order, be, send, purchase · To what, where: grand treasurer, 10,000 gold pieces, Khacan, slave
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saouy, grand treasurer), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ordered | cc |
| 2 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 treasurer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treasurer | amod |
| 7 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 present | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 present | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 present | cop |
| 11 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treasurer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 send | mark |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | conj |
| 15 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 pieces | nummod |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pieces | compound |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 send | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Khacan | case |
| 19 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 send | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 purchase | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 purchase | det |
| 22 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 send | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 slave | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 slave | det |
| 25 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 purchase | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Saouy | Saouy's grand treasurer | forthwith property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasurer=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Saouy's grand treasurer | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | Saouy not said here | 10,000 gold pieces | Khacan | for the purchase of the slave | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to khacan=Destination | ||
| 4 | purchase | the slave | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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