The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 10

The island of Serendib being situated on the equinoctial line, the days and nights there are of equal length.

What happens: situate, be · To what, where: island, equinoctial line

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 situated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Serendib	case
4	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 island	nmod
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 situated	aux:pass
6	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
9	equinoctial	equinoctial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 situated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 days	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 days	det
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 line	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nights	cc
15	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 line	conj
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 are	expl
17	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 situated	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 length	case
19	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 length	amod
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 are	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 situated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	situate	gerund · passive		the island of Serendib		the equinoctial line and the days and nights			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on line=Destination
2	be	present				there		of equal length	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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