The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 5
He took a large vase, and placing the money in the bottom of it, filled up the rest with olives.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: take, place, fill up · To what, where: large vase, money, bottom, rest
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vase | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vase | amod |
| 5 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 placing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 placing | cc |
| 8 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placing | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bottom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottom | det |
| 13 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bottom | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 placing | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 filled | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 olives | case |
| 22 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ali | a large vase | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | gerund | Ali not said here | the money | the bottom of bottom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in bottom=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill up | participle | Ali not said here | the rest | with olives | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rest=Patient with olive=Instrument |
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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