The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 76

He examined the jar on all sides; he shook it to see if it would rattle.

Who acts: sire, jar · What happens: examine, shake, see, rattle · To what, where: jar, sides

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 (sire, jar), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 examined	nsubj
2	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jar	det
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 examined	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 examined	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 shook	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shook	nsubj
10	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shook	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shook	advcl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 rattle	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rattle	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rattle	aux
17	rattle	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	examine	past	sire	the jar	all sides	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme
2	shake	past	sire	jar		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	see	to-infinitive	sire not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	rattle a condition, not said to happen	would	jar			vn animal_sounds-38 «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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