The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 46
The Caliph at that moment clapped his hands, and the vizir and the four slaves entering took off the fisherman's dress and put on him that which they had brought.
Who acts: Caliph, vizir · What happens: clap, enter, take off, put, bring · To what, where: hands, dress
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 (Caliph, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clapped | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Caliph | nmod |
| 6 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clapped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vizir | det |
| 12 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slaves | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 slaves | det |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 slaves | nummod |
| 16 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 vizir | conj |
| 17 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 vizir | acl |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 clapped | parataxis |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fisherman | det |
| 21 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dress | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 fisherman | case |
| 23 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 took | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 brought | mark |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 put | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | the Caliph at that moment | hand's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | the vizir and the four slaves not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take off | past | the vizir and the four slaves | the fisherman's dress | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | the vizir and the four slaves not said here | on fisherman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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