The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 69
Then they ate of the magnificent dinner which had been prepared for them, and after they were all refreshed they went into the garden, where the Sultan pointed out to his wife the Golden Water and the Singing Tree.
Who acts: house, Sultan · What happens: eat, prepare, be, go, point out · To what, where: magnificent dinner, garden, wife
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, Sultan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dinner | det |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dinner | amod |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 prepared | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 prepared | aux:pass |
| 11 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dinner | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 prepared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 refreshed | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 refreshed | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 refreshed | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 refreshed | advmod |
| 20 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | advcl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pointed | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 pointed | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Sultan | det |
| 29 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pointed | nsubj |
| 30 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 pointed | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 wife | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wife | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pointed | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Water | det |
| 36 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Water | amod |
| 37 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 wife | appos |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Tree | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Tree | det |
| 40 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Tree | compound |
| 41 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Water | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | house | then | of the magnificent dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of dinner=Source | |||
| 2 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the magnificent dinner | for house | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | past | house | all, refresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | house | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | point out | past | the Sultan | Sultan's wife | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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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