The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 41
One day Aladdin heard an order from the Sultan proclaimed that everyone was to stay at home and close his shutters while the princess, his daughter, went to and from the bath.
Who acts: Aladdin, order, everyone · What happens: hear, proclaim, be, close, go · To what, where: home, shutters, bath · 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, order, everyone), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 order | det |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Sultan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 order | nmod |
| 10 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stay | mark |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stay | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stay | mark |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 proclaimed | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stay | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 close | cc |
| 19 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stay | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shutters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 close | obj |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 princess | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 close | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 daughter | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 princess | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 went | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 bath | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bath | det |
| 34 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Aladdin | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | proclaim | past | a order from the Sultan | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | everyone | home | stay property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | close | infinitive | everyone not said here | Aladdin's shutters | the princess and Aladdin's daughter obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient | |||
| 5 | go | past | Aladdin not said here | the bath | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from bath=Initial_Location |
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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