The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 9
The fisherman did as he was told, and produced five or six fine fish, of which the Caliph took the two largest.
Who acts: fisherman, Caliph · What happens: do, tell, produce, take · To what, where: fisherman, five fine fish, largest · 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 (fisherman, Caliph), 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 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 produced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 produced | cc |
| 10 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fish | nummod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 six | cc |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 five | conj |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 produced | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 took | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Caliph | det |
| 20 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 produced | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 largest | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 largest | nsubj |
| 24 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the fisherman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | fisherman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | produce | past | five fine fish | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Result | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the Caliph | the largest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent large=Theme of which=Initial_Location |
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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