The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 144
Great prince of the genii, you must know that we are three brothers--these two black dogs and myself.
Who acts: Great prince, we, these · What happens: know, be, dog · To what, where: three brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great prince, we, these), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 prince | amod |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 genii | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 genii | det |
| 5 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prince | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 brothers | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brothers | cop |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 brothers | nummod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 know | ccomp |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 dogs | punct |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 dogs | nsubj |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 dogs | nummod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dogs | amod |
| 19 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brothers | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 myself | cc |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 dogs | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | Great prince of the genii | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | we | three brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dog | these | 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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