The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 69
For the last eighty years I have dug up the ground here without discovering anything.
Who acts: I · What happens: dig up, discover · To what, where: ground, anything
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 years | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 4 | eighty | eighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 years | compound |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dug | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dug | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dug | aux |
| 8 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 dug | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dug | obj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 dug | advmod |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 discovering | mark |
| 14 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dug | advcl |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 discovering | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | present · perfect | I | the ground | here | year | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||
| 2 | discover | gerund | I not said here | anything | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
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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