The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 43
Next she ordered another officer to remove the seals from the warehouse, whilst she presented the captain with a costly diamond, and told him to keep the thousand pieces of gold paid for the olives, as she would arrange matters with the merchant himself.
Who acts: Badoura, officer · What happens: order, remove, present, tell, keep, pay · To what, where: officer, seals, warehouse, captain, thousand pieces, matters · 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 (Badoura, officer), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 officer | det |
| 5 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remove | mark |
| 7 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seals | det |
| 9 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remove | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 warehouse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warehouse | det |
| 12 | warehouse | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remove | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 presented | punct |
| 14 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 16 presented | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 presented | nsubj |
| 16 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remove | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 captain | det |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presented | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 diamond | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 diamond | det |
| 21 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 diamond | amod |
| 22 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 captain | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 keep | mark |
| 28 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pieces | det |
| 30 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 pieces | nummod |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 keep | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 gold | case |
| 33 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pieces | nmod |
| 34 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 pieces | acl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 olives | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 olives | det |
| 37 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 paid | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 arrange | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 arrange | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 arrange | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 arrange | aux |
| 42 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 keep | conj |
| 43 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 arrange | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 merchant | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 merchant | det |
| 46 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 arrange | obl |
| 47 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 merchant | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Badoura | another officer | next property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | remove not said to happen | to-infinitive | another officer not said here | the seals | the warehouse | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent seal=Theme from warehouse=Source | |||
| 3 | present | past | Badoura | the captain | with a costly diamond | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent captain=Recipient with diamond=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Badoura not said here | captain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Badoura not said here | the thousand pieces of gold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pay | participle | the thousand pieces of gold not said here | for the olives | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for olive=Theme | ||||
| 7 | arrange | would | Badoura | matters | with the merchant captain | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent matter=Patient with merchant=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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