The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 15
Seeing that you are feasting with your friends, I bring you these fish."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, feast, bring · To what, where: fish, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bring | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 feasting | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 feasting | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feasting | aux |
| 5 | feasting | feast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Seeing | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feasting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | feast | present · progressive | you | with your friends | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | I | this fish | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination fish=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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