The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 19
The genie appeared, and at the magician's command carried him, together with the palace and the princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa.
Who acts: genie, magician · What happens: appear, carry, command · To what, where: genie, command · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (genie, magician), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 genie | det |
| 2 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 command | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 magician | case |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 together | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 carried | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 princess | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 princess | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 place | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 26 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Africa | case |
| 29 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 place | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the genie | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | the genie not said here | genie | the magician's command | with the palace and the princess in lamp; to a lonely place in Africa; together property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 3 | command | the magician | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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