The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 45
This done he recorked the vase and put it in the same place where it had been left by Ali Cogia.
Who acts: done, Ali · What happens: recork, put, leave · To what, where: vase, same place
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 (done, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | det |
| 2 | done | done | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recorked | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recorked | nsubj |
| 4 | recorked | recork | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vase | det |
| 6 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recorked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 recorked | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 left | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 left | aux:pass |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Ali | case |
| 20 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 21 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ali | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recorked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recork | past | this done | the vase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | this done not said here | vase | the same place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Ali | vase | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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