The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 17

A gentleman who would be a squire now was a kind of king in Scotland in very old times, and the same in other places.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: be · To what, where: squire, kind, other places

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 (gentleman), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 squire	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 squire	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 squire	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 squire	det
7	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gentleman	nmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 squire	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Scotland	case
15	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 king	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 times	case
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 old	advmod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kind	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 same	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 same	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 same	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 places	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 places	amod
26	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 same	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	a gentleman	a squire		now		tree rules
2	is a	past	a gentleman	a kind		time	of king in Scotland	tree rules
3	be		a gentleman not said here		other places			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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