The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 85

Amina understood her sister's meaning, and collecting the dishes, glasses, and musical instruments, she carried them away, while Sadie swept the hall and put everything in order.

Who acts: Amina, seat, Sadie, sister · What happens: understand, collect, carry away, sweep, put, mean · To what, where: meaning, dishes, hall, everything, order

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, seat, Sadie, sister), 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	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meaning	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sister	case
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understood	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 collecting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 collecting	cc
9	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 understood	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dishes	det
11	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 collecting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glasses	punct
13	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dishes	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 instruments	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 instruments	cc
16	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 instruments	amod
17	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dishes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 carried	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swept	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 swept	mark
25	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 swept	nsubj
26	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hall	det
28	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swept	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swept	conj
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 put	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 order	case
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Amina	seat's sister's meaning			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
2	collect	gerund	Amina not said here	the dishes and glasses and musical instruments			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	carry away	past	seat	dishes = dish		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	sweep	past	Sadie	the hall			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory
5	put	infinitive	Sadie not said here	everything	order		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in order=Destination
6	mean		seat's sister				nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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