The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
After the first few mouthfuls Amina poured some wine into a golden cup.
Who acts: Amina · What happens: pour · To what, where: wine, golden cup
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amina), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 mouthfuls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouthfuls | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 mouthfuls | amod |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouthfuls | amod |
| 5 | mouthfuls | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poured | obl |
| 6 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | nsubj |
| 7 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 wine | det |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cup | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cup | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cup | amod |
| 13 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | Amina | some wine | a golden cup | after the first few mouthfuls | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent wine=Theme into cup=Destination |
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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