The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 47
This being settled, Amina brought in supper, and lit up the hall with a number of sweet smelling tapers.
Who acts: Amina · What happens: settle, bring, lit up · To what, where: This, supper, hall
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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 settled | aux:pass |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 5 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 supper | case |
| 8 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lit | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lit | cc |
| 11 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 settled | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 lit | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lit | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 number | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lit | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tapers | case |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tapers | amod |
| 20 | smelling | smelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tapers | compound |
| 21 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | gerund · passive | This | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | Amina | supper | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lit up | participle | the hall | with a number of sweet smelling tapers | 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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