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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 73

There was no fish however, but he found a yellow pot, which by its weight seemed full of something, and he noticed that it was fastened and sealed with lead, with the impression of a seal.

Who acts: fish, sire, weight · What happens: be, find, seem, notice, fasten, seal · To what, where: yellow pot, weight, seal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fish, sire, weight), 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

expldetnsubjadvmodpunctccnsubjparataxisdetamodobjpunctobjmarknmod:possnsubjacl:relclxcompcaseoblpunctccnsubjconjmarknsubj:passaux:passccompccconjcaseoblpunctcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootTherePRONwasVERBnoDETfishNOUNhoweverADV,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONfoundVERBaDETyellowADJpotNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONbySCONJitsPRONweightNOUNseemedVERBfullADJofADPsomethingPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONnoticedVERBthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXfastenedVERBandCCONJsealedVERBwithADPleadNOUN,PUNCTwithADPtheDETimpressionNOUNofADPaDETsealNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 wasexpl
2wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3nonoDETPronType=Neg4 fishdet
4fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing2 wasnsubj
5howeverhoweverADV_2 wasadvmod
6,,PUNCT_9 foundpunct
7butbutCCONJ_9 foundcc
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 foundnsubj
9foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wasparataxis
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 potdet
11yellowyellowADJDegree=Pos12 potamod
12potpotNOUNNumber=Sing9 foundobj
13,,PUNCT_18 seemedpunct
14whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel18 seemedobj
15bybySCONJ_18 seemedmark
16itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 weightnmod:poss
17weightweightNOUNNumber=Sing18 seemednsubj
18seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 potacl:relcl
19fullfullADJDegree=Pos18 seemedxcomp
20ofofADP_21 somethingcase
21somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind19 fullobl
22,,PUNCT_25 noticedpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 noticedcc
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 noticednsubj
25noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 foundconj
26thatthatSCONJ_29 fastenedmark
27ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 fastenednsubj:pass
28wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 fastenedaux:pass
29fastenedfastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 noticedccomp
30andandCCONJ_31 sealedcc
31sealedsealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 fastenedconj
32withwithADP_33 leadcase
33leadleadNOUNNumber=Sing31 sealedobl
34,,PUNCT_37 impressionpunct
35withwithADP_37 impressioncase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 impressiondet
37impressionimpressionNOUNNumber=Sing29 fastenedobl
38ofofADP_40 sealcase
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 sealdet
40sealsealNOUNNumber=Sing37 impressionnmod
41..PUNCT_2 waspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepastno fishtherehowever propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2findpastsirea yellow potvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic
3seempastpot's weighta yellow potfull propertyvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute
4noticepastsirevn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5fastenpast · passiveweightwith the impression of a sealvn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with impression=Co-Patient
6sealparticiplewith leadvn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7impressa sealnom impression «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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