The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 41
Only we must be quick or he will have gone to his shop."
Who acts: we, hag · What happens: be, go · To what, where: shop
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 (we, hag), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 quick | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 gone | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gone | aux |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 quick | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shop | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shop | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | we | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future · perfect | hag | hag's shop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location |
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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