The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 67
He alone has the secret of the treasure, and can always get as much as he wants," and I halted my camels by the roadside, and ran back after him.
Who acts: demon, Commander · What happens: have, get, want, halt, run back · To what, where: secret, much, camels · 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 (demon, Commander), 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 | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 secret | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 treasure | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 treasure | det |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secret | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 wants | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wants | nsubj |
| 18 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 much | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 halted | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 halted | nsubj |
| 23 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 camels | nmod:poss |
| 25 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 halted | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 roadside | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roadside | det |
| 28 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 halted | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ran | cc |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 ran | advmod |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ran | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | demon | the secret of the treasure | alone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | can | demon not said here | much | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | want | present | demon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | halt in a quote | past | Commander | my camels | by the roadside | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector camel=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | run back in a quote | past | after demon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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