The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 79
Scheih Ibrahim disappeared again, and soon returned with a table spread with cups of gold and silver, and every sort of beautiful fruit.
Who acts: Scheih · What happens: disappear, return, spread, sort · To what, where: table, beautiful fruit
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 (Scheih), 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 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 2 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Scheih | flat |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 disappeared | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 returned | advmod |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 disappeared | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 table | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 cups | case |
| 14 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spread | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cups | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 silver | cc |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gold | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sort | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sort | cc |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sort | det |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fruit | case |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fruit | amod |
| 25 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sort | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | Scheih | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | participle | Scheih not said here | with a table; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | participle | a table not said here | with cups of gold and silver | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sort | beautiful fruit | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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