The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 3
That evening he gave him a long and rich robe of state, and presented him with two thousand sequins.
Who acts: king · What happens: give, present · To what, where: long robe, physician
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 robe | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 robe | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rich | cc |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 long | conj |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 state | case |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robe | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 presented | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 presented | cc |
| 15 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 presented | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sequins | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thousand | compound |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sequins | nummod |
| 20 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 presented | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | king | a long robe of state | physician | evening | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient robe=Theme | ||
| 2 | present | past | king not said here | physician | with thousand sequins | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with sequin=Theme |
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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