The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 32
"And the first takes up the chant again, `All praise to Him who lives for evermore.'"
Who acts: first, praise · What happens: take up, live · To what, where: chant
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 (first, praise), 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 | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 takes | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 takes | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chant | det |
| 8 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 takes | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 praise | punct |
| 11 | ` | ` | PUNCT | _ | 13 praise | punct |
| 12 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 praise | det |
| 13 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Him | case |
| 15 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 praise | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 praise | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 evermore | case |
| 19 | evermore | evermore | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 lives | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up in a quote | present | the first | the chant | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Theme | |||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | all praise to throne | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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