The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 133

The physician went to his house and made a polo club, the handle of which he hollowed out, and put in it the drug he wished to use.

Who acts: physician · What happens: go, make, hollow out, put, wish, use · To what, where: house, polo club, drug, handle

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (physician), 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	2 physician	det
2	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 club	det
10	polo	polo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 club	compound
11	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 handle	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 handle	det
14	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 club	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hollowed	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hollowed	nsubj
18	hollowed	hollow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 handle	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 hollowed	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 drug	det
26	drug	drug	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wished	nsubj
28	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drug	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 use	mark
30	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wished	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the physician		physician's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	make	past	the physician not said here	a polo club			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset club=Product
3	hollow out	past	physician			of the handle	vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source
4	put	participle	the physician not said here	the drug	handle		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drug=Theme in it=Destination
5	wish	past	physician	the drug not said here			tree rules
6	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	physician not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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