The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 76
He then ordered one of his ministers to fetch the physician, who came at once.
Who acts: vizir, one, physician · What happens: order, fetch, come · To what, where: one, 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 (vizir, one, physician), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ministers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fetch | mark |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 physician | det |
| 11 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 physician | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | vizir | one of vizir's ministers | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | fetch not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of vizir's ministers not said here | the physician | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the physician | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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