The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 41
Then, presenting him with forty gold pieces, he disappeared before Noureddin had time to thank him.
Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: present, disappear, have, thank · To what, where: Noureddin
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2397): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | presenting | present | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 disappeared | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 presenting | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pieces | case |
| 6 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pieces | nummod |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | compound |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 presenting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 presenting | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappeared | advcl |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 thank | mark |
| 17 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thank | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | gerund | Noureddin not said here | Noureddin | with forty gold pieces | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | Noureddin | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Noureddin | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | Noureddin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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