The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 50
Ali Cogia fetched his vase and carried it to his room at the inn, where he opened it.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: fetch, carry, open · To what, where: vase, inn
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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fetched | nsubj |
| 2 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 vase | nmod:poss |
| 5 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fetched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carried | cc |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fetched | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 inn | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inn | det |
| 14 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opened | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 opened | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 inn | acl:relcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 opened | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | Ali | Ali's vase | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Ali not said here | vase | the inn | to Ali's room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to room=Destination | ||
| 3 | open | past | Ali | vase | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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