The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 53
With the sale of my jewels I will obtain 10,000 gold pieces, and with this sum you will buy another slave."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: obtain, buy · To what, where: 10,000 gold pieces, slave
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 (I, you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 sale | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sale | det |
| 3 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtain | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 jewels | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 6 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sale | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 obtain | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 obtain | aux |
| 9 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 pieces | nummod |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pieces | compound |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 obtain | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buy | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sum | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 sum | det |
| 17 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 buy | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 buy | aux |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 obtain | conj |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 slave | det |
| 22 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 obtain | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 obtain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | future | I | 10,000 gold pieces | with the sale of my jewels | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | future | you | another slave | with this sum | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=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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