The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 35

When the merchant opened the vase he found the topmost olives were rotten, and in order to see if the under ones were in better condition he shook some out into the dish.

Who acts: merchant, husband, topmost olives, ones · What happens: open, find, be, see, shake out · To what, where: vase, better condition, some, dish · 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 (merchant, husband, topmost olives, ones), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vase	det
6	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 olives	det
10	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 olives	amod
11	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rotten	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rotten	cop
13	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 see	mark
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 in	fixed
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 found	conj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 condition	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ones	det
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 ones	case
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 condition	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 condition	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 condition	case
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 condition	amod
27	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	ccomp
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shook	nsubj
29	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 condition	acl:relcl
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 shook	obj
31	out	out	ADV	_	29 shook	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 dish	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dish	det
34	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shook	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the merchant	the vase			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vase=Theme
2	find	past	husband				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the topmost olives			rotten property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	husband not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the ones		better condition		tree rules
6	shake out	past	husband	some	the dish	out property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme into dish=Destination

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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