The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 97
"Now is the time to perform your promise.
Who acts: your · What happens: be, perform, promise · To what, where: time, promise
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 (your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 time | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 perform | mark |
| 7 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perform | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform in a quote | to-infinitive | your promise | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||||
| 3 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «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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