The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 98
They were so richly dressed, with such splendid jewels in their girdles, that everyone crowded to see them and the basins of gold they carried on their heads.
Who acts: basins · What happens: dress, see, carry · To what, where: basins, gold, heads
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 (basins), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 4 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jewels | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 jewels | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jewels | amod |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jewels | amod |
| 10 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dressed | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 girdles | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 girdles | nmod:poss |
| 13 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jewels | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crowded | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 crowded | mark |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 crowded | nsubj |
| 17 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dressed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 crowded | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 basins | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 basins | det |
| 23 | basins | basin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crowded | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 basins | nmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carried | nsubj |
| 27 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gold | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 heads | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heads | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 carried | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | basins = basin | with such splendid jewels in basins's girdles; richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | basins = basin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | basins = basin | gold not said here | basins's heads | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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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