The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 30
But changes were made in them at different times, and a great deal that is very dull and stupid was put in, and plenty of verses.
Who acts: great deal · What happens: make, be, put in · To what, where: changes, great deal
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 (great deal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dull | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dull | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 dull | advmod |
| 18 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stupid | cc |
| 20 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dull | conj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | aux:pass |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plenty | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 plenty | cc |
| 26 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 verses | case |
| 28 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 plenty | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | changes | time | in tales = tale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | is | present | a great deal | dull property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a great deal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | put in | past · passive | a great deal | plenty of verses obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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