The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 71
This treasure comes just at the right time, when you are about to return to your own country, where you will make good use of it."
Who acts: treasure, you · What happens: come, be, return, make, use · To what, where: good use, treasure
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 (treasure, you), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 treasure | det |
| 2 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 about | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 about | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 about | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 about | cop |
| 13 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 return | mark |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 about | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 make | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 return | conj |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 use | amod |
| 26 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 use | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | this treasure | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | you not said here | to your own country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | ||||
| 4 | make | future | you | good use of treasure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 5 | use | treasure | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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