The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 77
Aladdin told him what had happened, and showed him the dead body of the magician, that he might believe.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: tell, happen, show, believe · To what, where: Sultan, dead body · 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 (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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 body | amod |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 magician | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magician | det |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 believe | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 believe | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 believe | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 believe | aux |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 showed | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Aladdin | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | Aladdin not said here | the dead body of the magician | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient body=Topic | |||
| 4 | believe | might | Aladdin | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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