The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 60
It shall be inscribed in the archives of my kingdom and published everywhere abroad."
What happens: inscribe, publish · To what, where: posterity, archives
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 inscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 inscribed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 4 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 archives | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 archives | det |
| 7 | archives | archive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 inscribed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 archives | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 published | cc |
| 12 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inscribed | conj |
| 13 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 published | advmod |
| 14 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 12 published | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inscribed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 inscribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inscribe | shall · passive | posterity | the archives of my kingdom | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in archive=Destination | ||||
| 2 | publish | participle | abroad, everywhere property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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