The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 41
The boy informed them that Ali Cogia declared it was seven years since he had placed them in the vase; to which they returned the same answer as the children had done.
Who acts: boy, Ali, vase, olives · What happens: inform, declare, be, place, return, do · To what, where: olives, seven years, vase, same answer, children · 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 (boy, Ali, vase, olives), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 informed | nsubj |
| 3 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 informed | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 declared | mark |
| 6 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | nsubj |
| 7 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ali | flat |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 years | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 years | cop |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 declared | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 16 placed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | aux |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 declared | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 vase | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vase | det |
| 20 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 returned | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 answer | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 answer | amod |
| 28 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 done | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 children | det |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 done | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 returned | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past | the boy | olives = olive | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | Ali | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | vase | seven years | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | place | past · perfect | Ali | olives = olive | the vase | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in vase=Destination | |||
| 5 | return | past | olives = olive | the same answer | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to which=Destination | ||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect · passive | the children | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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