The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 59
We can then compare them at leisure, and decide which is in the right."
Who acts: We · What happens: compare, decide, be · To what, where: envoys, leisure, right · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 compare | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 compare | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 compare | advmod |
| 4 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 compare | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 leisure | case |
| 7 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compare | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 decide | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 decide | cc |
| 10 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 compare | parataxis |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 right | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 right | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 right | det |
| 15 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decide | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | can | We | envoys = envoy | leisure | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 2 | decide | infinitive | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the right | tree rules |
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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