The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 20
Bid Ali Cogia bring his vase of olives, and see that two dealers in olives are present."
Who acts: Bid, two dealers · What happens: bring, see, be · To what, where: vase · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bid, two dealers), 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 | Bid | Bid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bid | flat |
| 3 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bid | flat |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 vase | nmod:poss |
| 6 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 olives | case |
| 8 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vase | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 present | mark |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dealers | nummod |
| 14 | dealers | dealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 present | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 olives | case |
| 16 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dealers | nmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 present | cop |
| 18 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | Bid | Bid's vase of olives | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Bid not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | two dealers in olives | present property | tree rules |
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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