The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 41
In this book the stories are shortened here and there, and omissions are made of pieces only suitable for Arabs and old gentlemen.
What happens: shorten, make · To what, where: stories, book, omissions
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 book | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shortened | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shortened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shortened | aux:pass |
| 7 | shortened | shorten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 shortened | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 there | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 here | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 13 | omissions | omission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shortened | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 suitable | advmod |
| 19 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Arabs | amod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Arabs | case |
| 21 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 pieces | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gentlemen | cc |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gentlemen | amod |
| 24 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pieces | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shortened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shorten | present · passive | the stories | this book; here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | omissions | of pieces for suitable Arabs and old gentlemen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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