The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 102
He is dead and in ashes, but my own death is approaching fast." "
Who acts: fire, own death, my · What happens: be, approach, die
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, own death, my), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ashes | cc |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ashes | case |
| 6 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dead | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 approaching | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 approaching | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 death | amod |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approaching | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 approaching | aux |
| 13 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dead | parataxis |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 approaching | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 approaching | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 approaching | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fire | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | present · progressive | my own death | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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