The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 61
Noureddin took out two gold pieces, and giving them to Scheih Ibrahim said,
Who acts: Noureddin, giving · What happens: take out, give, say · To what, where: two gold pieces, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
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, giving), 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pieces | nummod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | compound |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 said | csubj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Scheih | case |
| 12 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obl |
| 13 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Scheih | flat |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Noureddin | two gold pieces | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | pieces = piece | to Scheih | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to scheih=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | giving | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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