The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 24
As may be supposed--continued the pilot--the mountain sides are very rugged, but on the summit stands a brass dome supported on pillars, and bearing on top the figure of a brass horse, with a rider on his back.
Who acts: mountain sides, brass dome · What happens: suppose, continue, be, stand, support, bear · To what, where: pilot, summit, brass dome, figure, top, brass horse
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 (mountain sides, brass dome), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 supposed | mark |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 supposed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 supposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 continued | advcl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposed | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pilot | det |
| 8 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 rugged | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sides | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sides | compound |
| 12 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rugged | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rugged | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 rugged | advmod |
| 15 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 continued | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stands | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 stands | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 summit | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 summit | det |
| 20 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | obl |
| 21 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rugged | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dome | det |
| 23 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dome | compound |
| 24 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | nsubj |
| 25 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dome | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 pillars | case |
| 27 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 supported | obl:agent |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bearing | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bearing | cc |
| 30 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 continued | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 top | case |
| 32 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bearing | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 figure | det |
| 34 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bearing | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 horse | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 horse | det |
| 37 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 horse | compound |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 figure | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rider | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 rider | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 rider | det |
| 42 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bearing | obl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 back | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 back | nmod:poss |
| 45 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rider | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | may · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S» | ||||||
| 2 | continue | past | the pilot | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pilot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the mountain sides | rugged property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | a brass dome | the summit | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on summit=Location | ||||
| 5 | support | participle | a brass dome not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bear | gerund | the figure of a brass horse | top | with a rider on dome's back | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient | |||
| 7 | figure | a brass horse | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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