The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 107
To-morrow I will go to them, and amongst them they will lend me a sum sufficient to start in some business."
Who acts: I, friends · What happens: go, lend, start · To what, where: friends, morrow, sum, me, business
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 (I, friends), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lend | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lend | cc |
| 11 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lend | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lend | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lend | aux |
| 15 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lend | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sum | det |
| 18 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lend | obj |
| 19 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lend | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 start | mark |
| 21 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sufficient | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 business | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 business | det |
| 24 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 start | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | friends = friend | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location to they=Destination | |||
| 2 | lend | future | friends = friend | a sum | me | amongst friends = friend; sufficient property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sum=Theme | ||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | some business | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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