The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 24
He sent at once for the fisherman, and when he came said to him, "Fisherman, bring me four more fish like you have brought already, for an accident has happened to them so that they cannot be served up to the Sultan."
Who acts: vizir, accident · What happens: send, say, bring, happen, not serve up · To what, where: Fisherman, vizir, four more fish, me, fish, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir, accident), 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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fisherman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fisherman | det |
| 7 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux:pass |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fisherman | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fisherman | punct |
| 18 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 fish | nummod |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 fish | amod |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bring | obj |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 28 brought | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 brought | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 brought | aux |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 bring | advcl |
| 29 | already | already | ADV | _ | 28 brought | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happened | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 happened | mark |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 accident | det |
| 33 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 happened | aux |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 brought | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 happened | obl |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 44 served | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 so | fixed |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 served | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 served | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 served | advmod |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 served | aux:pass |
| 44 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 happened | advcl |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 served | compound:prt |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Sultan | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Sultan | det |
| 48 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 served | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | vizir | for the fisherman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · passive | Fisherman | vizir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | four more fish | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | vizir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | a accident | fish | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not serve up in a quote | can · passive | fish | the Sultan | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sultan=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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