The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 56
In this same island we saw the rhinoceros, an animal which is smaller than the elephant and larger than the buffalo.
Who acts: we, animal · What happens: see, be · To what, where: rhinoceros, same island
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1223): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 island | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 island | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | amod |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rhinoceros | det |
| 8 | rhinoceros | rhinoceros | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 animal | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 animal | det |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rhinoceros | appos |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 smaller | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 smaller | cop |
| 14 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 animal | acl:relcl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 elephant | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 elephant | det |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smaller | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 larger | cc |
| 19 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 smaller | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 buffalo | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 buffalo | det |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 larger | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | we | the rhinoceros | this same island | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rhinoceros=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | a animal | than the elephant; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a animal not said here | than the buffalo | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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