The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 44
Very early next morning he went out and bought fresh new olives; he then threw away the old ones, took out the gold and hid it, and filled up the vase with the olives he had bought.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: go out, buy, throw away, take out, hide, fill up · To what, where: fresh new olives, old ones, gold, vase, olives
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), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 early | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bought | cc |
| 9 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 olives | amod |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 olives | amod |
| 12 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bought | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 threw | advmod |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 threw | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ones | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 threw | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gold | det |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hid | cc |
| 27 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 threw | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hid | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 filled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 filled | cc |
| 31 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 threw | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 filled | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 vase | det |
| 34 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 filled | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 olives | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 olives | det |
| 37 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 filled | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 bought | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 bought | aux |
| 40 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 olives | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Ali | morning | early, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | buy | past | Ali not said here | fresh new olives | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw away | past | Ali | the old ones | then | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||
| 4 | take out | past | Ali not said here | the gold | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | Ali not said here | gold | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fill up | participle | Ali not said here | the vase | with the olives | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vase=Patient with olive=Instrument | |||
| 7 | buy | past · perfect | Ali | the olives not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=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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