The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 13
When evening came the Princess Badoura retired to the inner part of the palace, and going to the apartments of the Princess Haiatelnefous she had the fifty jars of olives brought to her.
Who acts: evening, Princess Badoura, Badoura · What happens: come, retire, go, have, bring · To what, where: apartments, fifty jars, olives, Badoura
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 (evening, Princess Badoura, Badoura), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Badoura | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Badoura | compound |
| 6 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 retired | nsubj |
| 7 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 10 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 part | amod |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retired | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 apartments | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 apartments | det |
| 20 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 going | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Haiatelnefous | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Haiatelnefous | det |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Haiatelnefous | compound |
| 24 | Haiatelnefous | Haiatelnefous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 apartments | nmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 jars | det |
| 28 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 jars | nummod |
| 29 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 olives | case |
| 31 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 jars | nmod |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 olives | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | retire | past | the Princess Badoura | to the inner part of the palace | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | evening not said here | the apartments of the Princess Haiatelnefous | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Badoura | the fifty jars of olives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring | participle | olives not said here | Badoura | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |
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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