The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 5
By this time the other merchants knew the secret, but there was enough and to spare for all.
Who acts: other merchants · What happens: know, be, spare · To what, where: secret
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 (other merchants), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchants | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 merchants | amod |
| 6 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 secret | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 was | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spare | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spare | mark |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 spare | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the other merchants | the secret | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | be | past | the other merchants not said here | there | enough property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | the other merchants not said here | for all | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
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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