The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 102
Bring before me Ali Cogia, and the merchant who robbed him of the thousand pieces of gold."
Who acts: you, merchant · What happens: bring, rob · To what, where: Ali
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, merchant), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obl |
| 4 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 5 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ali | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 merchant | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 merchant | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 robbed | nsubj |
| 11 | robbed | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 robbed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pieces | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pieces | nummod |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 robbed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | Ali | before me | the merchant obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ali=Theme before i=Destination | ||
| 2 | rob | past | the merchant | Ali | of the thousand pieces of gold | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme of piece=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/102/