The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 31
Neither the verses nor the dull pieces are given in this book.
What happens: give · To what, where: verses, book
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 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 given | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 verses | det |
| 3 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 pieces | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pieces | det |
| 6 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pieces | amod |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 verses | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 book | det |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the verses nor the dull pieces | this book | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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