The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 97
Then turning to an officer, he added, "Give him a thousand pieces of gold out of my treasury, and twenty waggon-loads of merchandise out of my private stores, and let an escort of soldiers accompany him home."
Who acts: man, escort · What happens: turn, add, give, let, accompany · To what, where: officer, private stores, thousand pieces, man, treasury · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, escort), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 turning | advmod |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 added | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 officer | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 officer | det |
| 5 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 turning | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 added | nsubj |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Give | punct |
| 11 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 added | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Give | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thousand | det |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pieces | nummod |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Give | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 treasury | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 treasury | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 21 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Give | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 loads | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 loads | cc |
| 24 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 loads | nummod |
| 25 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 loads | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 waggon | punct |
| 27 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 added | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 merchandise | case |
| 29 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 loads | nmod |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 stores | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 stores | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 stores | nmod:poss |
| 33 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stores | amod |
| 34 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 added | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 let | cc |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 added | ccomp |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 escort | det |
| 39 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 accompany | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 soldiers | case |
| 41 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 escort | nmod |
| 42 | accompany | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 let | parataxis |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 accompany | obj |
| 44 | home | home | ADV | _ | 42 accompany | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | man not said here | a officer | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to officer=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | man | my private stores | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | thousand pieces of gold | man | my treasury | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | accompany in a quote | present | a escort of soldiers | man | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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