The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 111

So Ali Cogia disappeared for an instant, and then pretended to lay a vase at the feet of the Cadi, declaring it was his vase, which he had given to the accused for safe custody; and in order to be quite correct, the Cadi asked the merchant if he recognised it as the same vase.

Who acts: Ali, vase, Cadi · What happens: disappear, pretend, lay, declare, be, give · To what, where: vase, feet, accused safe custody, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ali, vase, Cadi), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 disappeared	advmod
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	nsubj
3	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ali	flat
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 instant	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 instant	det
7	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pretended	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pretended	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 pretended	advmod
11	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lay	mark
13	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pretended	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vase	det
15	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feet	det
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Cadi	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cadi	det
21	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 feet	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 declaring	punct
23	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 pretended	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 vase	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 vase	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 vase	nmod:poss
27	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 declaring	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 given	nsubj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 vase	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	38 custody	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 custody	det
35	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 custody	amod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 custody	case
37	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 custody	amod
38	custody	custody	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 asked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 asked	cc
41	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	46 correct	case
42	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 in	fixed
43	to	to	PART	_	46 correct	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 correct	cop
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 correct	advmod
46	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 asked	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 correct	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Cadi	det
49	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 asked	nsubj
50	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 merchant	det
52	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 asked	obj
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 recognised	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 recognised	nsubj
55	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 asked	advcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 recognised	obj
57	as	as	ADP	_	60 vase	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 vase	det
59	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 vase	amod
60	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 recognised	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	Ali					for a instant	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pretend	past	Ali not said here				then		tree rules
3	lay	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	a vase		the feet of the Cadi			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vase=Theme at foot=Destination
4	declare speech: other	gerund	Ali not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	vase	Cadi's vase					tree rules
6	give	past · perfect · passive		Cadi's vase	the accused safe custody				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to custody=Recipient
7	accuse	participle							vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	is	to-infinitive						correct property	tree rules
9	ask speech: ask	past	the Cadi	the merchant					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient
10	recognise a condition, not said to happen	past	Cadi	vase				as the same vase	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as vase=Attribute

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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