The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 34
A fowl of monstrous size, called a roc, will appear in the air, taking you to be a sheep.
Who acts: monstrous size, fowl · What happens: call, appear, take, be · To what, where: roc, air, you, sheep · 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 (monstrous size, fowl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fowl | det |
| 2 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 size | case |
| 4 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 size | amod |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fowl | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 size | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 roc | det |
| 9 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fowl | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 appear | aux |
| 12 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appear | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 appear | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 taking | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sheep | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sheep | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sheep | det |
| 22 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | monstrous size not said here | a roc | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | future | a fowl of monstrous size | the air | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | a fowl of monstrous size not said here | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a fowl of monstrous size not said here | a sheep | 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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