The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 104
On learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offered to take a shop for him and stock it with merchandise.
Who acts: bade, Aladdin · What happens: learn, be, offer, take, stock · To what, where: trade, shop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, Aladdin), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 learning | mark |
| 2 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 offered | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 idle | mark |
| 4 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 idle | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 idle | cop |
| 6 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 learning | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 learn | cc |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 learn | aux |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 idle | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 trade | det |
| 11 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learn | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 learning | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 offered | nsubj |
| 14 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 offered | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shop | det |
| 18 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stock | cc |
| 22 | stock | stock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stock | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 merchandise | case |
| 25 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stock | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | bade not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Aladdin | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | would | Aladdin not said here | no trade | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic | ||||
| 4 | offer | past | bade | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | bade not said here | a shop | for bade | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shop=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | stock | infinitive | bade not said here | trade | with merchandise | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with merchandise=Theme |
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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