The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 2
There is now no other resource left but to sell your slaves and your furniture."
Who acts: other resource · What happens: be, leave, sell · To what, where: other resource, slaves
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other resource), 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 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 resource | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 resource | amod |
| 6 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 resource | acl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sell | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sell | mark |
| 10 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sell | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 furniture | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 furniture | nmod:poss |
| 15 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slaves | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no other resource | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | no other resource not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sell | to-infinitive | your slaves and your furniture | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=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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