The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 52
So he got some plates and vessels from his travelling kit and emptied out the olives.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: get, empty out · To what, where: plates, travelling kit
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 plates | det |
| 5 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vessels | cc |
| 7 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plates | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 kit | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kit | nmod:poss |
| 10 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kit | compound |
| 11 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 emptied | cc |
| 13 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 emptied | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 olives | det |
| 16 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ali | some plates and vessels | Ali's travelling kit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent plate=Beneficiary olive=Theme | |||
| 2 | empty out | participle | Ali not said here | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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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