The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 34
So he sent for the fisherman, and asked him to procure four more fish.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: send, ask, procure · To what, where: Sultan, four more fish
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fisherman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fisherman | det |
| 6 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 procure | mark |
| 12 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fish | nummod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 procure | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Sultan | for the fisherman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Sultan not said here | Sultan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | procure not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | four more fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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