The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 12
So saying she gave orders for the payment and returned to the palace, having the jars carried before her.
Who acts: princess, jars · What happens: say, give, return, have, carry · To what, where: orders · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, jars), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 payment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 payment | det |
| 8 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 jars | det |
| 17 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 having | parataxis |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | princess | orders | for the payment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for payment=Asset | |||
| 3 | return | past | princess not said here | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | princess not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | carry | past | the jars | before princess | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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