The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 62
"I gave you the key of my shop and you put it yourself where you liked, and did you not find it in exactly the same spot and in the same state?
Who acts: man, you · What happens: give, put, like, do, not find · To what, where: key, you, same spot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 key | det |
| 6 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shop | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 key | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 put | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 liked | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 liked | nsubj |
| 17 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 find | advmod |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 did | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 find | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 26 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 29 spot | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 spot | amod |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 state | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 state | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 state | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 state | amod |
| 34 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spot | conj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | man | the key of my shop | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient key=Theme | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | past | you | key | yourself obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | like in a quote | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not find in a quote | present | you | key | the same spot and the same state | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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