The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 38
You will soon see him now, and meantime be content where you are and have patience."
Who acts: You, meantime · What happens: see, be · To what, where: captain
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, meantime), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 content | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 content | cc |
| 9 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 content | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 content | cop |
| 11 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | parataxis |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 have | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | cop |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 content | advcl |
| 17 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | You | captain | now | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | infinitive | meantime | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | have property | tree rules |
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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