The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 38
At these words, Ali Cogia presented the vase to the Caliph, and uncovered it.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: present, uncover · To what, where: vase, Caliph, words
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 presented | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 presented | nsubj |
| 6 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ali | flat |
| 7 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vase | det |
| 9 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presented | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Caliph | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 presented | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 uncovered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uncovered | cc |
| 15 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 presented | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 uncovered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | Ali | the vase | the Caliph | this words | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vase=Theme to caliph=Recipient | ||
| 2 | uncover | past | Ali not said here | vase | 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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