The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 57

It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip.

Who acts: rhinoceros, cubit · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one horn, furrow, base

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 (rhinoceros, cubit), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 horn	nummod
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cubit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cubit	det
7	cubit	cubit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horn	nmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cubit	amod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 solid	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 solid	cop
11	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cubit	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 has	cc
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 furrow	det
16	furrow	furrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 base	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 base	det
19	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 furrow	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 tip	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tip	det
22	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 base	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	rhinoceros	one horn		about a cubit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	is	present	a cubit			solid property	tree rules
3	have	present	rhinoceros not said here	a furrow	the base to the tip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furrow=Patient

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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