The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 28
They were written by a monkey in our presence."
Who acts: monkey · What happens: write · To what, where: officials, presence
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 (monkey), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 monkey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 presence | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 presence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | a monkey | officials = official | our presence | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in presence=Destination |
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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