The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 110
Once home he said to the genie: "Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: say, build · To what, where: genie, palace, Aladdin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 2 home | mark |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 genie | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 genie | det |
| 7 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Build | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Build | punct |
| 10 | Build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Build | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Build | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 marble | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 marble | det |
| 16 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 marble | amod |
| 17 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 19 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marble | appos |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 jasper | case |
| 21 | jasper | jasper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 agate | punct |
| 23 | agate | agate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stones | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stones | cc |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 27 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Build | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | the genie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to genie=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | build in a quote | infinitive | Aladdin not said here | a palace of the finest marble | Aladdin | other precious stones obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product |
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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