The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 25
This rider wears a breastplate of lead, on which strange signs and figures are engraved, and it is said that as long as this statue remains on the dome, vessels will never cease to perish at the foot of the mountain.
Who acts: rider, statue, vessels · What happens: wear, engrave, say, remain, not cease, perish · To what, where: breastplate, strange signs, rider, dome, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rider, statue, vessels), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 rider | det |
| 2 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wears | nsubj |
| 3 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 breastplate | det |
| 5 | breastplate | breastplate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wears | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lead | case |
| 7 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breastplate | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 engraved | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 engraved | obl |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 signs | amod |
| 12 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 engraved | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 figures | cc |
| 14 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 signs | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 engraved | aux:pass |
| 16 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wears | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wears | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 long | mark |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 said | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 remains | mark |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 statue | det |
| 27 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remains | nsubj |
| 28 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 dome | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dome | det |
| 31 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remains | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cease | punct |
| 33 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cease | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 cease | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 cease | advmod |
| 36 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 perish | mark |
| 38 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 cease | xcomp |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 foot | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 foot | det |
| 41 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 perish | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 mountain | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 mountain | det |
| 44 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 foot | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | this rider | a breastplate of lead | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breastplate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | engrave | present · passive | strange signs and figures | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | rider | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | this statue | the dome | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dome=Location | ||||
| 5 | not cease | future | vessels | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | perish | to-infinitive | vessels not said here | the foot of the mountain | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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