The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 113
Ali Cogia made a movement as if he was taking off the lid, and the little Cadi on his part made a pretence of peering into a vase.
Who acts: Ali, little Cadi, pretence · What happens: make, take off, peer · To what, where: movement, lid, pretence
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, little Cadi, pretence), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 movement | det |
| 5 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 taking | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 taking | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | aux |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 taking | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lid | det |
| 13 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Cadi | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Cadi | amod |
| 18 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 part | nmod:poss |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Cadi | nmod |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pretence | det |
| 24 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 peering | mark |
| 26 | peering | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 pretence | acl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 vase | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 vase | det |
| 29 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 peering | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Ali | a movement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Product | ||||
| 2 | take off | past · progressive | Ali | the lid | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the little Cadi on Cadi's part | a pretence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretence=Product | ||||
| 4 | peer | gerund | a pretence not said here | into a vase | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vase=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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