The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 20
Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East.
What happens: give, be · To what, where: all, volume, fairy tales
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Nights | advmod |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nights | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nights | det |
| 4 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Nights | amod |
| 5 | Nights | Night | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tales | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 tales | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 tales | det |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 some | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 given | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 all | advmod |
| 14 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 15 all | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux:pass |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 some | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 volume | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 volume | det |
| 21 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 some | punct |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tales | cop |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 tales | advmod |
| 25 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tales | amod |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Nights | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 East | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 East | det |
| 29 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | all | this volume | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | some fairy tales | of the East | 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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