The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 4
There the finest fish in the Tigris were to be found, but fishing was strictly forbidden.
What happens: find, forbid · To what, where: finest fish, fishing
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: 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 | 11 found | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 3 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Tigris | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tigris | det |
| 7 | Tigris | Tigris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forbidden | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 forbidden | cc |
| 14 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forbidden | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 16 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 17 forbidden | advmod |
| 17 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | the finest fish in the Tigris | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | forbid | past · passive | fishing | strictly property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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