The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 20
Are not the heads you see exposed on the town wall sufficient warning?
Who acts: you, heads · What happens: not be, see, expose · To what, where: heads, sufficient warning
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heads), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heads | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 heads | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heads | det |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heads | acl:relcl |
| 7 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 warning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | compound |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warning | nsubj |
| 12 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warning | amod |
| 13 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exposed | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the heads | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | you | the heads not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expose | participle | the heads not said here | sufficient warning | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
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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