The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 36
This being done the sea will rise and cover the mountain, and on it thou wilt perceive the figure of a metal man seated in a boat, having an oar in each hand.
Who acts: sea, thou · What happens: do, rise, cover, perceive, seat, have · To what, where: This, mountain, figure, metal man, boat, oar
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 (sea, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rise | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 rise | aux |
| 7 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 done | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cover | cc |
| 9 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rise | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 perceive | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 perceive | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 perceive | obl |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 perceive | nsubj |
| 17 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 perceive | aux |
| 18 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 done | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 figure | det |
| 20 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perceive | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | compound |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 figure | nmod |
| 25 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 man | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 boat | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 boat | det |
| 28 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seated | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 having | punct |
| 30 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 perceive | advcl |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 oar | det |
| 32 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 having | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 hand | det |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 having | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rise | future | the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cover | infinitive | the sea not said here | the mountain | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Destination | ||||
| 4 | perceive | future | thou | the figure of a metal man | Mountain | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | seat | participle | a metal man not said here | a boat | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in boat=Location | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | thou not said here | a oar | each hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Patient | |||
| 7 | figure | a metal man | 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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