The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 45
The Caliph ordered the Cadi to learn how to deal out justice from the mouth of a child, and sent the boy home, with a purse containing a hundred pieces of gold as a mark of his favour.
Who acts: Caliph, purse · What happens: order, learn, deal out, send, contain, mark · To what, where: Cadi, justice, mouth, boy, hundred pieces, favour · 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 (Caliph, purse), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cadi | det |
| 5 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 deal | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deal | mark |
| 10 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 learn | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 deal | compound:prt |
| 12 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deal | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 mouth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouth | det |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deal | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mouth | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boy | det |
| 23 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 sent | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 purse | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 purse | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 purse | det |
| 28 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 29 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 purse | acl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hundred | det |
| 31 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 pieces | nummod |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 containing | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pieces | nmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 mark | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mark | det |
| 37 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 containing | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 favour | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 favour | nmod:poss |
| 40 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mark | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Caliph | the Cadi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadi=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | deal out | to-infinitive | justice | the mouth of a child | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | past | the Caliph not said here | the boy | with a purse; home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||
| 5 | contain | gerund | a purse not said here | hundred pieces of gold | as a mark of Caliph's favour | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme | |||
| 6 | mark | Caliph's favour | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | favour | Caliph | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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