The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 23
This it is that causes the side of the mountain towards the sea to appear of such a dense blackness.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, appear
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 causes | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 causes | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 causes | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 causes | mark |
| 5 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 causes | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 causes | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 appear | mark |
| 15 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 causes | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 blackness | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 blackness | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blackness | det |
| 19 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blackness | amod |
| 20 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appear | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | towards the sea; cause property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | This not said here | of such dense blackness | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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