The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 15

The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such as wearing clothes or not, meeting lions who talk in the warm countries, or talking bears in the cold countries.

Who acts: changes, meeting lions · What happens: be, wear, meet, talk · To what, where: matters, warm countries

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (changes, meeting lions), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 changes	det
2	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matters	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matters	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 matters	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 matters	case
6	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 manners	case
8	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 matters	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 customs	cc
10	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 manners	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 clothes	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 clothes	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 clothes	amod
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 matters	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 not	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 clothes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lions	punct
19	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 lions	amod
20	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clothes	conj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 talk	nsubj
22	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 lions	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 countries	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 countries	det
25	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 countries	amod
26	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 talk	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bears	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 bears	cc
29	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 bears	amod
30	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clothes	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 countries	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 countries	det
33	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 countries	amod
34	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bears	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 matters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the changes	matters and wearing clothes and meeting lions or talking bears in the cold countries	of manners and customs	tree rules
2	wear	gerund				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	meet	gerund				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	present	meeting lions	the warm countries		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	talk	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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