The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 85
So the two men presented themselves before the Cadi, and Ali Cogia again repeated his tale.
Who acts: two men, Ali · What happens: present, repeat, tell · To what, where: pearls, tale · 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 (two men, 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 | _ | 5 presented | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 presented | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 Cadi | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cadi | det |
| 9 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 repeated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 repeated | cc |
| 12 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 repeated | nsubj |
| 13 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ali | flat |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 repeated | advmod |
| 15 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 presented | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tale | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repeated | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | the two men | pearls = pearl | before the Cadi | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | repeat | past | Ali | Ali's tale | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | tell | Ali | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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