The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 82
Instead of answering the young man lifted up his robe, and showed the Sultan that, from the waist downwards, he was a block of black marble.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: answer, lift up, show, be · To what, where: young man, robe, that, Sultan, block
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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 answering | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lifted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answering | obj |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 lifted | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 robe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showed | cc |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 showed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waist | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 waist | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waist | det |
| 20 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | conj |
| 21 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 20 waist | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 block | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 block | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 block | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 block | det |
| 26 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 marble | case |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 marble | amod |
| 29 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 block | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the young man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lift up | past | man's robe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | past | that | the Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient that=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Sultan | a block | of black marble | tree rules |
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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