The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 75

There are no olives in the Ebony Island, and those imported from here fetch a high price.

Who acts: olives · What happens: be, import, fetch · To what, where: Ebony Island, those, high price

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 (olives), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 olives	det
4	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 Island	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Island	det
7	Ebony	Ebony	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Island	compound
8	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 imported	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 imported	cc
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 imported	nsubj:pass
12	imported	import	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 are	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 here	case
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 imported	obl
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 imported	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 price	det
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 price	amod
18	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	no olives		the Ebony Island; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location
2	import	participle · passive		those		tree rules
3	fetch	infinitive		a high price		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme

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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