The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 66
It is as well to begin on my wedding-day as I mean to go on for the rest of our lives.
Who acts: charge, I · What happens: be, mean, go on
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 (charge, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begin | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 begin | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 6 begin | cc |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 begin | mark |
| 6 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 day | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wedding | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begin | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 mean | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 begin | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mean | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lives | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lives | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | charge | day | begin property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go on not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | for the rest of our lives | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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