The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 39
The Caliph took one of the olives, tasted it, and ordered the expert merchants to do the same.
Who acts: Caliph, expert merchants · What happens: take, taste, order, do · To what, where: one, vase, expert merchants, same
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 (Caliph, expert merchants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 olives | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 olives | det |
| 7 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tasted | punct |
| 9 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tasted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merchants | det |
| 15 | expert | expert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 merchants | amod |
| 16 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Caliph | one of the olives | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | taste | past | vase | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the expert merchants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the expert merchants not said here | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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