The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 33
Come, my dear son, let us wait together for happier days."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: come, let, wait · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 wait | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wait | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | my dear son vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | us not said here | day | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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