The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 34
As soon as thou art awake dig up the ground underfoot, and thou shalt find a bow of brass and three arrows of lead.
Who acts: thou · What happens: dig up, find · To what, where: ground underfoot, bow
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 (thou), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dig | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 art | mark |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 art | nsubj |
| 5 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 6 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 art | xcomp |
| 7 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 dig | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 underfoot | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 underfoot | compound |
| 11 | underfoot | underfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dig | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dig | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bow | det |
| 18 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brass | case |
| 20 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bow | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arrows | cc |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 arrows | nummod |
| 23 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brass | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lead | case |
| 25 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrows | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | present | the ground underfoot | soon property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent underfoot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | shall | thou | a bow of brass and three arrows of lead | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Topic |
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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