The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 86
There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac.
Who acts: name, Schacabac · What happens: remain, relate, be, name · To what, where: story, you, Schacabac
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 (name, Schacabac), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 remains | expl |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remains | advmod |
| 3 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 remains | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 relate | mark |
| 7 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remains | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 relate | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 relate | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brother | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Schacabac | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Schacabac | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Schacabac | cop |
| 20 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | there | now | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | the story of my sixth brother | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Schacabac's name | Schacabac | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | Schacabac | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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