The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 53
But he took it in good part, and, drawing three little golden balls from his purse, he held them out to Prince Bahman, saying, "Put these in your bosom and you will not forget a third time, for when you remove your girdle to-night the noise they will make in falling will remind you of my wishes."
Who acts: Sultan, you, balls, noise, your, my · What happens: take, draw, hold out, say, put, not forget · To what, where: thing, good part, three little golden balls, purse, balls, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, you, balls, noise), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drawing | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawing | punct |
| 11 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 balls | nummod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 balls | amod |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 balls | amod |
| 15 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drawing | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 purse | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 purse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 held | nsubj |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 held | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 held | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Prince | case |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 26 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Prince | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Put | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Put | punct |
| 31 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 32 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 Put | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bosom | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Put | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 forget | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 forget | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 forget | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 forget | advmod |
| 40 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 time | det |
| 42 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 43 time | amod |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 forget | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 remove | punct |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 48 remove | mark |
| 46 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 remove | advmod |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 remove | nsubj |
| 48 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 49 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 50 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 remove | obj |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 night | case |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 to | punct |
| 53 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 remove | obl |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 noise | det |
| 55 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 remind | nsubj |
| 56 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 make | nsubj |
| 57 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 make | aux |
| 58 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 noise | acl:relcl |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 falling | case |
| 60 | falling | falling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 make | obl |
| 61 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 remind | aux |
| 62 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 remove | parataxis |
| 63 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 62 remind | iobj |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 wishes | case |
| 65 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 66 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 remind | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 68 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Sultan | thing | good part | tree rules | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Sultan not said here | three little golden balls | Sultan's purse | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ball=Theme from purse=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | hold out | past | Sultan | balls = ball | Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Sultan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | these | your bosom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in bosom=Destination | ||||
| 6 | not forget in a quote | future | you | time | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | remove in a quote | present | you | your girdle | night | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme | |||
| 8 | make in a quote | future | balls = ball | the noise not said here | falling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 9 | remind speech: other in a quote | future | the noise | you | of my wishes | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of wish=Topic | |||
| 10 | bosom in a quote | your | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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