The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 62
The island is divided into several provinces, in each of which are large flourishing towns, and the whole forms an important kingdom.
Who acts: whole · What happens: divide, be, form · To what, where: island, several provinces, large flourishing towns, important kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | aux:pass |
| 4 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 provinces | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 provinces | amod |
| 7 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 divided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 towns | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 towns | det |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 towns | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 towns | cop |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towns | amod |
| 15 | flourishing | flourishing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towns | amod |
| 16 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 divided | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forms | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forms | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 whole | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forms | nsubj |
| 21 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 kingdom | det |
| 23 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 kingdom | amod |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forms | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | present · passive | the island | several provinces | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | each large flourishing towns | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | form | present | the whole | a important kingdom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=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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