The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 60
Before, however, this was done, the dervish went up to a great golden vase, beautifully chased, and took from it a small wooden box, which he hid in the bosom of his dress, merely saying that it contained a special kind of ointment.
Who acts: dervish, small wooden box, box · What happens: do, go up, chase, take, hide, say · To what, where: this, small wooden box, vase, bosom, special kind, dress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, small wooden box, box), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 went | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dervish | det |
| 10 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 vase | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vase | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vase | amod |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vase | amod |
| 17 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chased | punct |
| 19 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 20 chased | advmod |
| 20 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 went | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 box | det |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 box | amod |
| 28 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 box | amod |
| 29 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hid | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 hid | nsubj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hid | nsubj |
| 33 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 box | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 bosom | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bosom | det |
| 36 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hid | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 dress | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 dress | nmod:poss |
| 39 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bosom | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 saying | punct |
| 41 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 42 saying | advmod |
| 42 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 took | advcl |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 contained | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 contained | nsubj |
| 45 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 saying | ccomp |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 kind | det |
| 47 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 kind | amod |
| 48 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 contained | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 ointment | case |
| 50 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 kind | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | the dervish | to a great golden vase | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | chase | participle | beautifully property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the dervish not said here | a small wooden box | vase | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme from it=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | hide | past | a small wooden box | the bosom of Commander's dress | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bosom=Location | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | the dervish not said here | merely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | contain | past | box | a special kind of ointment | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bosom | Commander's dress | nom bosom «state 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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