The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 111
In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome, its four walls of massy gold and silver, each side having six windows, whose lattices, all except one, which is to be left unfinished, must be set with diamonds and rubies.
Who acts: you, side · What happens: build, have, leave, set · To what, where: large hall, me, middle, six windows, dome
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 (you, side), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 build | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 build | aux |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 build | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hall | amod |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 dome | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dome | det |
| 13 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walls | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 walls | nmod:poss |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 walls | nummod |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dome | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 19 | massy | massy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gold | amod |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walls | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 silver | cc |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gold | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 side | punct |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dome | conj |
| 26 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 side | acl |
| 27 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 windows | nummod |
| 28 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 having | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lattices | punct |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 31 lattices | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lattices | lattice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 windows | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 all | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 dome | conj |
| 34 | except | except | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 all | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 left | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 left | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 left | aux:pass |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 left | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 left | aux:pass |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dome | parataxis |
| 42 | unfinished | unfinished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 left | xcomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 set | punct |
| 44 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 set | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 set | aux:pass |
| 46 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 build | parataxis |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 diamonds | case |
| 48 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 set | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 rubies | cc |
| 50 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 diamonds | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | shall | you | a large hall | me | the middle | with a dome and middle's four walls of massy gold and silver and each side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary hall=Product | |
| 2 | have | gerund | each side not said here | six windows and six windows and six windows's lattices's lattices | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | a dome and middle's four walls of massy gold and silver and each side | unfinished property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set | must · passive | with diamonds and rubies | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with diamond=Instrument |
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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