The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 46
Once let the sun rise and we can hide it no longer!
Who acts: you, sun, we · What happens: let, rise, hide · To what, where: sun
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 (you, sun, 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rise | nsubj |
| 5 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hide | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 hide | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hide | aux |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hide | obj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 hide | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | infinitive | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | can | we | sun | long property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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