The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 30
I have set my house in order, and to-day I shall be buried with my wife.
Who acts: I · What happens: set, bury · To what, where: house, order, I
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 order | case |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buried | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 buried | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 buried | aux:pass |
| 16 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 set | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · perfect | I | my house | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 2 | bury | shall · passive | I | day | with my wife | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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