The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 17
He snatched it and bade the slave take her choice, amid the jeers of the crowd.
Who acts: slave, bade, crowd · What happens: snatch, take, jeer · To what, where: lamp, choice
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, bade, crowd), 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 snatched | nsubj |
| 2 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 snatched | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 5 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slave | det |
| 7 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 snatched | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 choice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amid | punct |
| 12 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 choice | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jeers | det |
| 14 | jeers | jeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 crowd | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crowd | det |
| 17 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jeers | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | slave | lamp | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | bade | bade's choice and amid | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument choice=Theme jeer=Destination | ||||
| 3 | jeer | the crowd | nom jeer «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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