The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 8
He determined to get hold of the lamp, and again plunge Aladdin into the deepest poverty.
Who acts: magician · What happens: determine, get, plunge, hold · To what, where: hold, Aladdin, deepest poverty, lamp
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | xcomp |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lamp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lamp | det |
| 8 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plunge | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plunge | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 plunge | advmod |
| 12 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | conj |
| 13 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plunge | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 poverty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poverty | det |
| 16 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 poverty | amod |
| 17 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plunge | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | magician | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | magician not said here | hold of the lamp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | plunge | infinitive | magician not said here | Aladdin | the deepest poverty | again | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aladdin=Theme | ||
| 4 | hold | the lamp | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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