The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 1
The dervish took the box I had extended to him, and, bidding me shut my left eye, touched it gently with the ointment.
Who acts: dervish, I · What happens: take, extend, bid, touch · To what, where: box, dervish, me, eye
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dervish | det |
| 2 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 extended | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 extended | aux |
| 8 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 box | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 extended | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bidding | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bidding | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bidding | punct |
| 14 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bidding | obj |
| 16 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bidding | xcomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eye | nmod:poss |
| 18 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eye | amod |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bidding | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 touched | punct |
| 21 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 touched | obj |
| 23 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 touched | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 ointment | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ointment | det |
| 26 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 touched | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the dervish | the box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | extend | past · perfect | I | the box not said here | dervish | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent box=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the dervish not said here | me | shut property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | touch | past | eye | with the ointment; gently property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with ointment=Instrument |
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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