The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 40
"To-day is a public holiday, and the people of the town not only do not work themselves but forbid others to do so.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, not work, forbid, do · To what, where: public holiday, people, others
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | _ | 8 holiday | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holiday | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 holiday | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 holiday | det |
| 7 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 holiday | amod |
| 8 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 work | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 work | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 work | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 people | nmod |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 work | advmod |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 work | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 work | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 work | advmod |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 holiday | parataxis |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 work | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 forbid | cc |
| 23 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 work | conj |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 forbid | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 forbid | xcomp |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 holiday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a public holiday | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not work in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the people of the town | people | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent themselves=Material | ||||
| 3 | forbid in a quote | infinitive | the people of the town not said here | others | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the people of the town not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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