The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 32
So did our fathers, and so must we do.
Who acts: we · What happens: do · To what, where: fathers
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 (we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | our fathers | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | must | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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