The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 72
In these days there is not an honest man to be met with.
Who acts: honest man · What happens: not be, meet
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 is | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 is | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 met | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 met | aux:pass |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 met | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a honest man | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive · passive | a honest man not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V» |
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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