The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 1
Two children were presented to him as olive merchants, and the Cadi addressed them. "
Who acts: Cadi · What happens: present, address · To what, where: Two children, him, children
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadi), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 children | nummod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | aux:pass |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 merchants | case |
| 8 | olive | olive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merchants | amod |
| 9 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presented | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 addressed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 addressed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cadi | det |
| 13 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 addressed | nsubj |
| 14 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 addressed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past · passive | Two children | him = he | as olive merchants | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | address | past | the Cadi | children = child | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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