The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 102
"If this is so," they said, "we must cease to come here."
Who acts: this, friends, we · What happens: be, say, cease, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, friends, we), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 so | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 so | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cease | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cease | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 cease | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cease | aux |
| 14 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cease | xcomp |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cease | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | friends = friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cease in a quote | must | we | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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