The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 14
Hitherto the search has been a failure, but his Highness has not yet given up hope."
Who acts: search · What happens: be, not give up · To what, where: failure, Highness
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 (search), 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 | Hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 7 failure | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 search | det |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 failure | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 failure | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 failure | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 failure | det |
| 7 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 given | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 given | advmod |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 failure | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 given | compound:prt |
| 17 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 failure | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 failure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | the search | a failure | hitherto property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not give up | present · perfect · passive | use's Highness | yet | tree rules |
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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