The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 44
At my feasts I will send for musicians and dancers from the neighbouring town to amuse my guests.
Who acts: I · What happens: send, neighbour, amuse · To what, where: feasts, guests
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 (I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 feasts | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feasts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 send | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 send | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 send | aux |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 musicians | case |
| 8 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 send | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dancers | cc |
| 10 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 musicians | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 13 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 town | amod |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 amuse | mark |
| 16 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 town | acl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 guests | nmod:poss |
| 18 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 amuse | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | my feasts | for musicians and dancers; from the neighbouring town | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | I not said here | my guests | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guest=Experiencer |
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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