The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 11
Taking the two fish in his hand, he returned to the vizir, who, not recognising him, would have sent him about his business.
Who acts: fisherman, vizir · What happens: take, return, not recognise, send · To what, where: two fish, hand, fisherman
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 (fisherman, vizir), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sent | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fish | nummod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Taking | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 vizir | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizir | det |
| 13 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 recognising | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 recognising | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 recognising | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 recognising | advmod |
| 18 | recognising | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 vizir | acl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 recognising | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sent | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sent | aux |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sent | obj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 business | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 business | nmod:poss |
| 27 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the two fish | fisherman's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Value in hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | return | past | fisherman | to the vizir result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vizir=Result | ||||
| 3 | not recognise | gerund | the vizir | fisherman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | send | would · perfect | fisherman | about fisherman's business | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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