The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
I have condemned them to remain for ten years in these shapes."
Who acts: I · What happens: condemn, remain · To what, where: dogs, shapes
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 condemned | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 condemned | aux |
| 3 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 condemned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remain | mark |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 condemned | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remain | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 shapes | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 shapes | det |
| 12 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remain | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemned | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | present · perfect | I | dogs = dog | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | I not said here | this shapes | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location |
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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