The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 59
Her art likewise teaches me to recognise at first sight all persons who are enchanted, and tells me by whom the spell was wrought."
Who acts: art, spell · What happens: teach, recognise, enchant, tell, be · To what, where: me, persons, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (art, spell), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 art | nmod:poss |
| 2 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teaches | nsubj |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 teaches | advmod |
| 4 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 teaches | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 recognise | mark |
| 7 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teaches | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 sight | advmod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognise | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 persons | det |
| 12 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 recognise | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 enchanted | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 15 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 persons | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tells | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tells | cc |
| 18 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 teaches | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tells | iobj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 tells | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spell | det |
| 23 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wrought | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wrought | cop |
| 25 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 whom | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teaches | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Queen's art | me | likewise property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | recognise | to-infinitive | Queen's art not said here | all persons | sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | enchant | present · passive | all persons | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | Queen's art not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the spell | wrought property | 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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