The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 58
Upon it is traced in white lines the figure of a man.
What happens: trace, figure · To what, where: rhinoceros, white lines, man
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: 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 4 traced | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 traced | aux:pass |
| 4 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 lines | case |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lines | amod |
| 7 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 traced | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 figure | det |
| 9 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 traced | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 figure | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | present · passive | rhinoceros | white lines | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | figure | a man | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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