The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 96
He summoned the genie, and in a few moments the eighty slaves arrived, and filled up the small house and garden.
Who acts: son, eighty slaves · What happens: summon, arrive, fill up · To what, where: genie, small house
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 (son, eighty slaves), 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 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 genie | det |
| 4 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summoned | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrived | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moments | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moments | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moments | amod |
| 10 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 arrived | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slaves | det |
| 12 | eighty | eighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slaves | compound |
| 13 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 summoned | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 arrived | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 filled | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 garden | cc |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | son | the genie | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genie=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the eighty slaves | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill up | participle | the eighty slaves not said here | the small house and garden | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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