The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 133

Aladdin, knowing that their task was vain, bade them undo their work and carry the jewels back, and the genie finished the window at his command.

Who acts: task, Aladdin, genie, sir, work · What happens: know, be, undo, carry back, finish, task · To what, where: work, jewels, window, command · 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 (task, Aladdin, genie, sir), 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	12 undo	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aladdin	punct
3	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 undo	csubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 vain	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 task	nmod:poss
6	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vain	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 vain	cop
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knowing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bade	punct
10	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vain	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	undo	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 work	nmod:poss
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 undo	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carry	cc
16	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 undo	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jewels	det
18	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carry	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	16 carry	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 finished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 finished	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 genie	det
23	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finished	nsubj
24	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 undo	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 window	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finished	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 command	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 command	nmod:poss
29	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finished	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 undo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	sir's task			vain property	tree rules
3	undo	present	Aladdin	sir's work			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
4	carry back	infinitive	Aladdin not said here	the jewels			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme
5	finish	past	the genie	the window	work's command		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality window=Eventuality
6	task		sir				nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	work		sir				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8	command		work				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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