The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 65
When I reached the bottom I discovered that I was in a huge palace, as brilliantly lighted as any palace above ground that I had ever seen, with a long gallery supported by pillars of jasper, ornamented with capitals of gold.
Who acts: I, palace · What happens: reach, discover, be, light, see, support · To what, where: bottom, huge palace, long gallery
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, palace), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 discovered | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bottom | det |
| 5 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 palace | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 palace | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 palace | amod |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lighted | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 lighted | mark |
| 17 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 18 lighted | advmod |
| 18 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 discovered | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lighted | obl |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 seen | advmod |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 palace | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gallery | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 gallery | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 gallery | det |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 gallery | amod |
| 33 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lighted | obl |
| 34 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 gallery | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 pillars | case |
| 36 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 supported | obl:agent |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 jasper | case |
| 38 | jasper | jasper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pillars | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ornamented | punct |
| 40 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lighted | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 capitals | case |
| 42 | capitals | capital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 ornamented | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 gold | case |
| 44 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 capitals | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | I | the bottom | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | I | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | a huge palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light | participle | I not said here | as any palace above ground; with a long gallery; brilliantly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with gallery=Material | ||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | any palace above ground | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | support | participle | a long gallery not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | ornament | participle | I not said here | with capitals of gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with capital=Theme |
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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