The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 134
The Sultan was surprised to receive his jewels again and visited Aladdin, who showed him the window finished.
Who acts: Sultan, Aladdin, window · What happens: be, receive, visit, show, finish · To what, where: jewels, 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 (Sultan, Aladdin, window), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 receive | mark |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 receive | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 receive | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 visited | cc |
| 11 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | conj |
| 12 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 showed | nsubj |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Aladdin | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finished | nsubj |
| 19 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 showed | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | Sultan's jewels | again | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||
| 3 | visit | past | the Sultan not said here | Aladdin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | past | Aladdin | Aladdin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | finish | past | the window | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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