The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 105
The Cadi took his seat gravely, and an officer introduced first Ali Cogia, the plaintiff, and then the merchant who was the defendant.
Who acts: Cadi, officer, merchant · What happens: take, introduce, be · To what, where: seat, Ali, defendant
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 (Cadi, officer, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cadi | det |
| 2 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 seat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 officer | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 officer | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 officer | det |
| 10 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 11 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 officer | acl |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 introduced | advmod |
| 13 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 introduced | obl |
| 14 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ali | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plaintiff | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plaintiff | det |
| 17 | plaintiff | plaintiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Ali | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 defendant | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 defendant | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 defendant | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 merchant | det |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 defendant | nsubj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 defendant | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 defendant | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 defendant | det |
| 26 | defendant | defendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Cadi | Cadi's seat | gravely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | |||
| 2 | introduce | participle | a officer not said here | Ali | first property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the merchant | the defendant | then | tree rules |
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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