The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 33
The two little slaves barred the entrance, saying that his mother had given orders that he was not to be admitted.
Who acts: two little slaves · What happens: bar, say, give, not admit · To what, where: entrance, mother, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two little slaves), 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 | 4 slaves | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 slaves | nummod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slaves | amod |
| 4 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 barred | nsubj |
| 5 | barred | bar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 entrance | det |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barred | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 barred | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 given | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 given | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 admitted | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 admitted | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 admitted | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 admitted | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 admitted | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 admitted | aux:pass |
| 22 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 given | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 barred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bar | past | the two little slaves | the entrance | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the two little slaves not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | beauty's mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient order=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not admit speech: other | past · passive | beauty | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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