The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 40

In this book "The Arabian Nights" are translated from the French version of Monsieur Galland, who dropped out the poetry and a great deal of what the Arabian authors thought funny, though it seems wearisome to us.

Who acts: French version, Arabian authors, it · What happens: translate, drop out, think, seem, deal · To what, where: Arabian Nights, book, poetry

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 (French version, Arabian authors, it), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 book	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 translated	obl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Nights	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nights	det
6	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Nights	amod
7	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 translated	nsubj:pass
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Nights	punct
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 translated	aux:pass
10	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 version	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 version	det
13	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 version	amod
14	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 translated	obl:agent
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Monsieur	case
16	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 version	nmod
17	Galland	Galland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Monsieur	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dropped	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dropped	nsubj
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 version	acl:relcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 dropped	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 poetry	det
23	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deal	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 deal	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deal	amod
27	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 poetry	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 what	case
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 deal	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 authors	det
31	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 authors	amod
32	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
34	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thought	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seems	punct
36	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 seems	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seems	nsubj
38	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 translated	conj
39	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 seems	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 us	case
41	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 wearisome	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 translated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	translate	present · passive	the French version of Monsieur	the Arabian Nights	this book		vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	drop out	past	the French version of Monsieur	the poetry and a great deal of the poetry and a great deal of the poetry			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	the Arabian authors			funny property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seem	present	it			wearisome property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	deal			the poetry and a great deal of the poetry and a great deal			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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