The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 38
When Noureddin had left the room, Scheih Ibrahim, who had hitherto kept silence, said: "Kerim, for two miserable fish thou hast received a purse and a slave.
Who acts: Noureddin, Scheih, thou · What happens: leave, keep, say, receive · To what, where: room, Scheih, purse · 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 (Noureddin, Scheih, thou), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 8 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 9 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Scheih | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kept | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kept | aux |
| 13 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 14 kept | advmod |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Scheih | acl:relcl |
| 15 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Scheih | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kerim | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kerim | punct |
| 20 | Kerim | Kerim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fish | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fish | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 fish | nummod |
| 24 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fish | amod |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Kerim | appos |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 received | nsubj |
| 27 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 received | aux |
| 28 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 fish | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 purse | det |
| 30 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 received | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 slave | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 slave | det |
| 33 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 purse | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | Noureddin | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect · passive | Scheih | hitherto property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme silence=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Scheih | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | receive in a quote | present · perfect | thou | a purse and a slave | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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