The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 97
He left her and rubbed the lamp, and when the genie appeared commanded him to bring a roc's egg.
Who acts: Aladdin, genie · What happens: leave, rub, appear, command, bring · To what, where: princess, lamp, Aladdin, egg · 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, genie), 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 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rubbed | cc |
| 5 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lamp | det |
| 7 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commanded | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 appeared | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 genie | det |
| 12 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 commanded | advcl |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 commanded | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 commanded | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 roc | det |
| 19 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 egg | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 roc | case |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Aladdin | princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | Aladdin not said here | the lamp | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the genie | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | command | past | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | a roc's egg | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=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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