The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 20
Let us make several rafts, and carry them to a suitable place.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, make, carry · To what, where: us, several rafts, rafts, suitable place
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rafts | amod |
| 5 | rafts | raft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | several rafts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raft=Product | ||||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | you not said here | rafts = raft | a suitable place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to place=Destination |
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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