The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
One day, my two brothers came to me to propose that we should make a journey and trade.
Who acts: two brothers, we · What happens: come, propose, make · To what, where: me, journey
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 propose | mark |
| 11 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 propose | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 journey | det |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trade | cc |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 journey | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | my two brothers | me | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | propose | to-infinitive | my two brothers not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | should | we | a journey and trade | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product |
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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