The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 52
"I have here, brother, some merchandise belonging to a passenger of mine who is dead.
Who acts: number, merchandise, passenger · What happens: have, belong, be · To what, where: brother
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 (number, merchandise, passenger), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 merchandise | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 merchandise | det |
| 9 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | appos |
| 10 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 merchandise | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 passenger | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 passenger | det |
| 13 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 belonging | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mine | case |
| 15 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 passenger | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 passenger | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | number | brother | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 2 | belong in a quote | gerund | some merchandise not said here | to a passenger of mine | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a passenger of mine | dead property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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