The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 45
"It is all over with us!" she wailed, "if we cannot find some means of getting the body out of the house.
Who acts: corpse, wife, we, some · What happens: be, wail, not find, mean, get · To what, where: body, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse, wife, we, some), 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 over | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 over | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 over | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 wailed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 over | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wailed | nsubj |
| 11 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wailed | conj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 getting | mark |
| 22 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 means | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 body | det |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 getting | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 getting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | corpse | with us; all, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wail | past | wife | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | we | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | some | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | gerund | the body | the house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
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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