The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 61
The time has now come; but before we depart, we will leave you our keys, so that you may not lack entertainment during our absence.
Who acts: we, you, our · What happens: come, depart, leave, not lack, absent · To what, where: you, entertainment
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 (we, you, our), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 depart | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 depart | nsubj |
| 10 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 depart | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | aux |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 keys | nmod:poss |
| 17 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lack | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 lack | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 lack | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 lack | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 lack | advmod |
| 24 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leave | conj |
| 25 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lack | obj |
| 26 | during | during | ADP | _ | 28 absence | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 absence | nmod:poss |
| 28 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lack | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | now; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | depart | present | we | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | future | we | you | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme key=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not lack | may | you | entertainment | during our absence | tree rules | |||
| 5 | absent | our | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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