The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 100
That is a state of things that must at once be put an end to!
Who acts: That · What happens: be, put · To what, where: state, things
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 state | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 state | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 state | det |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 state | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 put | obj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 put | obl |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | aux:pass |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | xcomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a state | of things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | must · passive | things | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: that=Asset end=Goal |
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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