The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 68
Sometimes it was a court planted with roses, jessamine, dafeodils, hyacinths and anemones, and a thousand other flowers of which I did not know the names.
Who acts: chance, I · What happens: be, plant, not know · To what, where: court, names
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 (chance, I), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 court | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 court | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 court | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 court | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 roses | case |
| 8 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 planted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jessamine | punct |
| 10 | jessamine | jessamine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roses | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dafeodils | punct |
| 12 | dafeodils | dafeodil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jessamine | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hyacinths | punct |
| 14 | hyacinths | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dafeodils | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 anemones | cc |
| 16 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dafeodils | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flowers | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flowers | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thousand | det |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 flowers | nummod |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flowers | amod |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 court | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 know | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 know | advmod |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 flowers | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 names | det |
| 30 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 know | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 court | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | chance | a court | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plant | participle | a court not said here | with roses and jessamine and dafeodils and hyacinths and anemones | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rose=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | I | the names | of thousand other flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
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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