The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 8
He drew a ring from his finger and gave it to Aladdin, bidding him prosper.
Who acts: foot · What happens: draw, give, bid, prosper · To what, where: ring, finger, Aladdin, foot
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 (foot), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 finger | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Aladdin | case |
| 12 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bidding | punct |
| 14 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bidding | obj |
| 16 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bidding | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | foot | a ring | foot's finger | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | foot not said here | ring | Aladdin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to aladdin=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bid | gerund | foot not said here | foot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prosper | infinitive | foot not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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