The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 39
In so doing he rubbed the magic ring he still wore.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: do, rub, wear · To what, where: magic ring
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 (Aladdin), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 doing | mark |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 doing | advmod |
| 3 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rubbed | nsubj |
| 5 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 doing | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ring | amod |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbed | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wore | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 wore | advmod |
| 11 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ring | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | rub | past | Aladdin | the magic ring | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | Aladdin | the magic ring not said here | still | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=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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