The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 20
They then wept and beat their breasts, crying, "This is the fruit of idleness, and of our wicked lives."
Who acts: covers, This · What happens: weep, beat, cry, be · To what, where: breasts, fruit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (covers, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wept | advmod |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beat | cc |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breasts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crying | punct |
| 9 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wept | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fruit | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fruit | punct |
| 12 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 fruit | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fruit | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fruit | det |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crying | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 idleness | case |
| 17 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fruit | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lives | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lives | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lives | amod |
| 23 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wept | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | covers = cover | then | of our wicked lives | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | beat | past | covers = cover not said here | covers's breasts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | covers = cover not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | This | the fruit | of idleness | tree rules |
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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