The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 14
On the seashore and at the mouths of the rivers the divers seek for pearls, and in some valleys diamonds are plentiful.
Who acts: divers, diamonds · What happens: seek, be · To what, where: seashore, valleys
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: who acts (divers, diamonds), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 seashore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seashore | det |
| 3 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mouths | cc |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 mouths | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouths | det |
| 7 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seashore | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rivers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rivers | det |
| 10 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mouths | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 divers | det |
| 12 | divers | diver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seek | nsubj |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pearls | case |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seek | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 plentiful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 plentiful | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 valleys | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 valleys | det |
| 20 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 plentiful | obl |
| 21 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 plentiful | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 plentiful | cop |
| 23 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seek | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | the divers | the seashore and the mouths of the rivers | for pearls | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on seashore=Location for pearl=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | diamonds | some valleys | plentiful 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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