The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 99

Aladdin ran home, and told his mother of his newly found uncle.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: run, tell, find · To what, where: mother · 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 (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	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 uncle	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 uncle	nmod:poss
11	newly	newly	ADV	_	12 found	advmod
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 uncle	amod
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	Aladdin		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Aladdin not said here	tailor's mother of tailor's found uncle		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
3	find	participle			newly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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