The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 35
She first drank herself, according to the Arab custom, and then filled it for her sisters.
Who acts: chance · What happens: drink, accord, fill · To what, where: chance, Arab custom, custom
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 (chance), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 drank | advmod |
| 3 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 drank | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 according | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drank | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 custom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 custom | det |
| 9 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 custom | amod |
| 10 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 according | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filled | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 filled | advmod |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 filled | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sisters | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | chance | chance | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | chance not said here | to the Arab custom goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to custom=Goal | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | chance not said here | custom | then | for chance's sisters | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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