The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 17
Really, one cannot deny that this is a very singular story, and it deserves to be written in letters of gold."
Who acts: one, this, story · What happens: not deny, be, deserve, write, letter · To what, where: singular story, letters, gold
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, this, story), 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 6 deny | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Really | punct |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deny | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 deny | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 deny | advmod |
| 6 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 story | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 story | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 singular | advmod |
| 12 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deny | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deserves | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 deserves | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 deserves | nsubj |
| 17 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deny | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 written | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 deserves | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 letters | case |
| 22 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 written | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 letters | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deny | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 deny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deny | can | one | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a singular story | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deserve | present | story | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | write | to-infinitive · passive | story not said here | letters of gold | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=Destination | ||||
| 5 | letter | gold | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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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