The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 92
Judgment being given the merchant returned home triumphant, and Ali Cogia went back to his inn to draw up a petition to the Caliph.
Who acts: merchant, Ali · What happens: give, return, go back, draw up · To what, where: Judgment, petition, Caliph
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 (merchant, 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 | Judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | ccomp |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 8 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 returned | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 12 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | flat |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 inn | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 inn | nmod:poss |
| 17 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 draw | mark |
| 19 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 draw | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 petition | det |
| 22 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 draw | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Caliph | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Caliph | det |
| 25 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 petition | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · passive | Judgment | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | return | past | the merchant | home, triumphant property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | Ali | to Ali's inn result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result | ||||
| 4 | draw up | to-infinitive | Ali not said here | a petition | the Caliph | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to caliph=Destination |
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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